Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, removing the Army’s top officer in the latest shake-up of military leadership amid the war in Iran.
Hegseth asked George to step down and retire immediately, a Department of Defense official confirmed Thursday to MS NOW. Christopher LaNeve, a former Hegseth military aide, is expected to serve as acting chief of staff.
CBS was the first to report the ousting. The Pentagon confirmed George’s departure Thursday in a social media post, without further detail.
“The Department of War is grateful for General George’s decades of service to our nation. We wish him well in his retirement,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell wrote on X.
Two additional Army generals were also fired alongside George, two defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity told the Washington Post amid the shakeup. They are Gen. David Hodne, head of Army Transformation and Training Command, and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the 26th chief of chaplains.
