Last week, the unexplained expulsion of the first woman head of the US Navy Academy is the latest in a string of top military women, which have either been either removed or re -designed for large -scale invisible roles under the Trump administration.
Delete Napolis, as the first woman superintendent of the academy in MD, Vice Adam Yate Davids from her post, makes her one of at least five senior women’s service members who have been taken out of their roles since January.
Experts say the defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s well -written antipathy may have an impact on women in the armed forces, before becoming a pentagon’s well -written antipathy in the Pentagon roles, before becoming a Pentagon prominent.
Lyon Peneta, a former defense secretary of the Obama administration, said, “It is difficult to conclude that it is going to weaken our military force, which is reducing the role of women, I believe that our military ability is an internal part of our military capacity.”
Paneta, who announced in 2013, that all fighter roles would soon be open to women – a change that eventually came in 2015 – told The Hill that the Trump administration would have an impact on morale for women service members to remove female leaders from the rank, often without explanation, without explanation.
“The bus sends a clear indication without reason to remove the commanders from their positions that it is not about the merit, it’s not about the performance, it’s about the fact that they are women. It’s the only conclusion you can come,” he said.
Davids were not removed outright, instead transferred to a senior post of naval operations, to a senior position, but was out of the public eye on a large scale. But only after the shift, he led the academy for 18 months instead of the tenure of three or four years of the superintendent of the school.
Nora Bansahel, professor at the Civil-Signal Relations at the University of Johns Hopkins, said the fact that she was removed from the Naval Academy, in fact, sends a message from the Pentagon that they do not think that a woman is eligible to educate and train the next generation. “
“This sends a terrible message to women who are currently serving in the US Army, or young women and girls thinking of joining the US Army – that they are not welcome at the highest level,” Bansahel told The Hill.
Paraj of top women officials began the day when President Trump was inaugurated, Coast Guard Commandant Adam. With Linda Lee FaganA few hours after his oath was removed.She was in role since June 2022 and was the first uniformed woman to lead the military branch.
At that time, officials of the Homeland Security Department, who oversee the Coast Guard,Allegedly saidDue to his firing, there were “extreme attention” with “excessive attention” with “excessive attention” on border security and diversity, equity and inclusion “.
This was followed by Adam Lisa Frenchti, the first woman head of the Navy operations, and the February of the Air Force Lieutenant General Jennifer Short, who served as a senior military assistant to the Defense Secretary. They both came without clarification, although Hegseth called Frenchty, who claimed a four -decade career that included several command posts, a “dei rent”.
And in April, Vice Adam, the only female flag officer in NATO military committee. Shoshana Chatfield was allegedly fired due to prolonged advocacy for DEI within the armed forces, including a Women’s Equality Day presentation in 2015.
All women have now been purified by the top jobs of the army, with no female four-star officers on active duty and no one in the pending appointments for four or three-readara roles.
When asked about the argument for francheti, short and chatfield firing, Pentagon’s press secretary Kingsley Wilson indicated that there was an issue with his overall performance, even no frightening mistakes came to light, while the three were in their previous roles.
“Under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth, the Defense Department no longer takes the decisions of personnel on the basis of sex,” he said in a statement to the hill. “Publicity, revaluation, and expulsion are all fixed on the basis of merit and overall performance.”
While many male senior military officers have also been removed under the Trump administration – especially the Joint Chief of Staff Chair General General.
He said that with 18 percent force made from women, the army cannot kill the recruitment numbers without them.
Hegseth had not made any secret of her views on the members of the women’s service since last year, in her book titled “The War on Warriors”, she allowed women to perform well in support roles in war, but “Women in women – women in women – women in war – is another story.”
He said, “Dads push us to take risks. Mothers kept training on our bikes. We need mothers. But not in the army, especially in fighter units,” he said.
And only a week ago he was named Trump’s pick for the Defense Secretary, Hegseth said poignantly that he was “directly saying that we should not have women in the roles of war,” while on a podcast.
He said, “It has not made us more effective, not making us more deadly, which is more complex to fight,” he said “Sean rayan show“Podcast, which aired on 7 November.” We have served with all women, and they are great. But our institutions are not required to encourage at that location, where, traditionally, on human history – men are more capable in those positions. ,
To win confirmation as the head of the Pentagon, however, Hegseth published his stance in public to get votes from Republican Senators, who expressed misunderstandings about their previous comments on women soldiers. Among them, Sen Joni Ernst (R-Ayova), a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army’s National Guard, who took over the command of soldiers in Iraq and Kuwait.
In his nomination hearing, Hegseth said that he was not against women in war jobs, but suggested that the standards of such roles have been reduced to fulfill the diversity quota – a claim that previous defense officials say that there is no evidence.
“Yes, women will have access to ground-combat roles,” hegasethe told Ernst, “Hegseth told Arnons, who later voted yes to confirm them in narrow 51–50 votes.
Once in the building, Hegseth quickly had to work to work with any program or effort – a passion in Trump’s second term. On 29 January, he moved to the armed forces with plans for a new Pentagon Task Force to promote “qualification-based, color-blind policies”, to run on race and sex as an idea for military promotion. Dei’s effort, Hegseth claimed, is harmful to recruiting and forcing readiness.
In April, she took an ax at a pentagon program, which means to carry forward the participation of women in the prevention of peace of women and the prevention of struggle, known as women, peace and security (WPS), “the United Nations program was pushed by feminists and leftist activists,” and claiming that “hails from soldiers.
The event was built by Homeland’s Security Secretary Christie Nom, then a member of the House representing the South Dakota, co—–off from State Secretary Maro Rubio, then a Florida Senator, and signed by Trump in his first term by Trump.
In addition, in this spring, proceeded with an attempt to review the Hegseth and potentially overhall war and physical -faces standards – some people were seen by some people as a backdoor attempt to keep women out of fighter roles.
But Paneta said that taking steps to reduce the role of women in the army does not matter much if Hegseth is actually looking to maintain only a strong army, as they claimed.
“It is clear that he has been protesting for women in the army for a long time. This attitude is now affecting our military capacity. I think the bottom line is that it weakens our force,” Paneta said.
He said, “Women should be judged, like every other military warrior, from their ability, from their ability to do a job. So I felt that they felt that they were important to give them that opportunity,” he said. “They had to meet the standard, they had to be able to work, exactly what they are able to do.”
