Over the last week, Hegseth has fired two handpicked aides and longtime friends, ostensibly over a leaks investigation, which ...

His chief of staff ... Joint Chiefs of Staff, the chief of naval operations and Air Force vice chief of staff — he also removed his own senior military assistant, who was first appointed by Austin.

Last month, after news broke that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was using Signal to discuss sensitive military operations ...

Ricky Buria, a former aide to previous Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who has rapidly ... the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Pentagon’s head of policy into a meeting room.

Four senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were named Thursday amid the turmoil at the Pentagon that has included ...