According to sources, at least the Chairman of the Defense Branch Commanders Council, General Charles Q. Brown, is expected to be fired.
President-elect Donald Trump’s the transition team is already preparing a list of all the military personnel who will be fired from the Pentagon when Trump takes office. Sources close to the team tell the news agency Reuters about it.
One of the sources says that the former chairman of the Council of Defense Branch Commanders is at the top of the list to be fired Mark Milley appointed generals. Relations between Trump and Milley are frosty. Published last month by Bob Woodward in the book, Milley said, among other things, that Trump is “fascist to the core”.
According to various sources, the firings await at least Milley’s successor, the general Charles Q. Brownbut also other key personnel in the US Armed Forces.
On Wednesday, Trump caused consternation when he announced that he would nominate a Fox News host Pete Hegseth’s as the defense minister of his future administration.
Reserve Captain Hegseth has served in the armed forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Guantanamo military base, but has no experience leading foreign or security policy.
In addition to the Defense Department, Hegseth is to lead the active-duty forces, which include 1.3 million people, according to the New York Times.
Source: Reuters