Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth abruptly fired the Navy’s chief of staff over the weekend in his latest purge of top brass. Hegseth on Friday canned Jon Harrison, who had amassed more influence than his predecessors and introduced significant changes at the Pentagon,

In his post, Hegseth said that “our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route.