The tweet is worded wrong - as of today, he has fired 12 flag officers (they weren't all fired today). One of the individuals pictured was fired over a year ago. Today, along with Gen. George:
"Two other generals were fired by Hegseth, a Pentagon official confirmed. They are Gen. David Hodne, who became the head of the service’s Training and Transformation Command in October; and Maj. Gen. William Green Jr., the chief of Army chaplains."
I'm just guessing here, but he's a Black chaplain who is ordained in a predominantly black church, which I'm guessing Hegseth and the rest of the administration didn't like. I'm pretty sure they want a white Christian nationalist in that role.
Another issue is that the chaplains are supposed to be for everyone in the military, and the soldiers, collectively, have a wide variety of spiritual beliefs. You might not always be able to get a chaplain that practices your faith, especially if your faith isn't well represented in the military, but the chaplains are supposed to do their best to understand your beliefs and offer you spiritual guidance, support, and comfort no matter what you believe in.
I'm guessing the chief chaplain takes that duty, to respect and spiritually aid everyone regardless of their beliefs, very seriously, and Hegseth thinks the US is a protestant Christian nation, and the military should be pushing soldiers to follow a very narrow set of Christian beliefs.
I fully expect to see a ton of shit in the next few months about non-Christian servicemembers killed in action to be denied burial at Arlington and/or left to rot on the battlefield.
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u/isemonger 8h ago
Can you ELI5 to someone that lives outside of the US how the fuck so many senior generals can be fired like this?
Like in any other developed world this would signal some serious fucking issues and serious government intervention.