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The political news from the Pentagon on April 2 shocked military officials: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George — the Army’s most senior officer — while the 82nd Airborne Division was actively deploying to the Middle East, replacing him immediately with Gen. Christopher LaNeve, a former personal aide to Hegseth. Summary CBS News first reported the ouster; Axios confirmed with defense officials; Hegseth also fired Gen. David Hodne, commander of Army Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the Army chief of chaplains — three generals removed on the same day George, confirmed by the Senate as Army Chief in 2023 under Biden and three years into a typical four-year term, learned of the decision via a phone call from Hegseth while he was in a meeting; Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell announced his retirement as “effective immediately” Two US officials confirmed to Axios the firing was driven by clashing personalities, not policy disagreement; it is the latest in a string of more than a dozen generals and flag officers Hegseth has removed since taking office, including Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. C.Q. Brown and Navy CNO Adm. Lisa Franchetti As Axios reported, one US official’s response to the timing was blunt: “you fire him? In the middle of a war?” LaNeve, who previously called into the Commander in Chief’s Ball after Trump’s inauguration to congratulate the president, was described by Parnell as “completely trusted by Secretary Hegseth to carry out the vision of this administration without fault.” The firing coincides with the fifth week of the Iran war and the Army’s active deployment of forces for integrated air and missile defense. George was not a figurehead. He was actively coordinating the deployment of 82nd Airborne forces and integrated air and missile defense…

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