Massive Pentagon Purge

A mass purge is underway at the Pentagon with President Trump firing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, and Secretary Hegseth firing several other high-ranking officials at the DOD.

The Naval Chief is gone, as is the Vice Chief of the Air Force, and the Judge Advocates Generals for the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

Restoring sanity and military readiness.

Trump Fires Racist Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

BREAKING: There's a major purge underway at the Pentagon as we speak.

President Trump and Pete Hegseth are firing all the woke officials in the military.

The Naval Chief is gone, as is the Vice Chief of the Air Force, and the Judge Advocates Generals for the Army, Navy, and Air… pic.twitter.com/jsr02BLI0H

— George (@BehizyTweets) February 22, 2025

Trump and Hegseth Pentagon Purge: 5,400 Citizen Employees Getting the Boot

The Trump administration’s Pentagon continues to drain the swamp, announcing plans to fire 5,400 civilian employees in a bold first step to slash the bloated workforce by 5-8%.

These employees, deemed… pic.twitter.com/zX8RDMJ7cT

— MAGA Resource (@MAGAResource) February 22, 2025

WEIRD, no one probed when the pentagon was "purged" of hundreds under Biden. pic.twitter.com/rDnsKtO2wY

— StewMama- Radically Moderate (@StewMama71) January 31, 2025

The previous foundation of the military was built on woke BS
We're replacing that with a warrior ethos
Feel free to have a good cry https://t.co/FPoHxzdY7v

— Jim Hanson (@JimHansonDC) February 22, 2025

BREAKING: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is now issuing filmed fact-checks of the media from the Pentagon.

Brilliant.

Hegseth issued 3 fact checks, calling out the media for their "bogus" reporting on the Pentagon's recent activities.

1. "The first is DOGE… With DOGE,… pic.twitter.com/D3gNsosXXH

— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 20, 2025

Trump and Hegseth Pentagon Purge: 5,400 Citizen Employees Getting the Boot

The Trump administration’s Pentagon continues to drain the swamp, announcing plans to fire 5,400 civilian employees in a bold first step to slash the bloated workforce by 5-8%.

These employees, deemed non-essential by America’s new leadership, will be out the door next week, saving taxpayers millions and refocusing the military on winning wars, not woke agendas.

Thousands of Pentagon Civilian Workers Will Be Fired Next Week as Trump Purge Begins

By: Military.com, February 21, 2025:

The Pentagon announced Friday it will fire 5,400 civilian employees next week — and potentially tens of thousands more — as part of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s ongoing effort to slash personnel and spending throughout the federal government.

The massive round of firings is part of an “initial effort” to cut the Defense Department’s civilian workforce by 5% to 8% and was to be followed up with a hiring freeze, as thousands of employees at other federal agencies have been terminated in recent weeks or enticed to resign during the early days of the Trump administration.

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“We expect approximately 5,400 probationary workers will be released beginning next week as part of this initial effort, after which we will implement a hiring freeze while we conduct a further analysis of our personnel needs,” Darin Selnick, the man who is currently performing the duties of the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, said in a statement.

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“As the secretary made clear, it is simply not in the public interest to retain individuals whose contributions are not mission-critical,” Selnick said in the statement.

It was unclear on Friday what positions and employees would be affected, and the Pentagon did not provide any additional information beyond the brief statement.

By: Military.com,February 22, 2025.

Almost half of the civilian employees in the department are veterans.

The department was apparently backing off plans to fire all civilian employees who are still in the early stages of their employment. The move Friday also comes after firings at the Department of Veterans Affairs, as well as many other agencies.

The announcement is the first concrete word from the Defense Department on how it plans to proceed with an effort to pare down its civilian workforce after media reports emerged earlier this week that the Pentagon had plans to fire roughly 50,000 probationary employees en masse.

However, CNN reported Wednesday that the plan would run afoul of the law.

In a video posted to social media Thursday evening, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the plan is to conduct a “really thorough look at our workforce top to bottom, and it will be top to bottom, to see where we can find and eliminate redundancies.”

“Now common sense would tell us where we should start, right? We start with poor performers amongst our probationary employees because that is common sense and you want the best and brightest,” Hegseth said.