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2 Veterans Tied to 'Nazi White Nationalist Efforts' Allegedly Stole Gear from Army Base, Beat Soldier with Hammer
Military.com | By Drew F. Lawrence and Steve Beynon
Published June 04, 2025 at 6:01pm ET
 
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday accused two military veterans of assaulting a soldier and stealing equipment from an Army special operations compound in Washington state, a brazen break-in that ended with a cache of weapons and Nazi paraphernalia discovered in one of their homes.
 
State and federal police arrested Charles Ethan Fields and Levi Austin Frakes after executing a warrant Monday for alleged assault, robbery and theft of government property, according to the complaint shared with Military.com by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Western District of Washington.
 
Prosecutors say Fields and Frakes entered Joint Base Lewis-McChord on Sunday evening through the main gate and made their way to a facility used by Charlie Company, 75th Ranger Regiment. Dressed in Ranger fitness training attire and wearing masks, the pair allegedly stole military gear after bludgeoning a soldier with a hammer and fleeing the scene.
 
Before being attacked, the soldier, who was not identified in court documents, confronted the veterans, who were in the process of stealing tens of thousands of dollars worth of ballistic helmets, rifle plates and communications equipment.
 
As the soldier was questioning the pair, ordering them to remove their masks, one of them attacked him, striking him in the head and torso with a hammer. The soldier fought off the attacker, taking the hammer, but "surrendered" as the other assailant was brandishing a knife, according to court records.
 
The soldier was treated at the base hospital after a "large amount of blood loss," images in the complaint show.
 
The pair allegedly stole $14,000 worth of gear, but dropped much of it at the scene when fleeing. Law enforcement discovered blood on their rucksacks and boots, according to the complaint.
 
The Army Criminal Investigation Division requested a search warrant after discovering the rucksacks filled with the equipment that they left behind, as well as the hat that bore Fields' last name. During the search of one of the homes, the CID seized 35 weapons, including rifles, pistols, short-barreled rifles, an MG32 machine gun and suppressors -- some of which appeared to have been produced using a 3D printer -- along with night vision equipment, body armor, flashbang grenades, smoke canisters and blasting caps.
 
Images from the complaint also show Nazi and white supremacist paraphernalia in one of the residences, including flags with a swastika and "SS" lightning bolts, murals and literature "in every bedroom and near several stockpiles of weapons and military equipment."
 
Investigators said that one of the veterans admitted in an interview to stealing military property from the Ranger compound for "about two years" to later sell or trade.
 
Fields and Frakes registered a company in Washington billed as a "defense manufacturing and training" service that featured imagery associated with Nazi ideology in its logo, according to the website and public business records. The company did not return a request for comment.
 
In social media, they listed several military units as "clients," including the 75th Ranger Regiment, U.S. Army Special Forces, 1st Marine Division and the Coast Guard. Military.com contacted the units on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Ranger Regiment acknowledged the inquiry, but referred the publication to Army Special Operations Command.
 
Charles Ethan Fields and Levi Austin Frakes, two veterans, were arrested and accused of assault, robbery and theft of government property.
A spokesperson for the Coast Guard said that it "has never contracted with or been a client of" their company. The other units did not respond by deadline.
 
Fields served a short stint as an infantryman in the active-duty Army from 2017 to 2021, deploying twice to Afghanistan and leaving the service with the rank of sergeant, service records show. The complaint notes both suspects previously served in the military, citing Pentagon records, and that the soldier who tried to confront them learned Fields had been assigned to the Ranger battalion he tried to steal from sometime around 2021.
 
Military.com contacted the Marine Corps regarding Frakes' service, as a social media page shows that he served in the branch for four years. A spokesperson could not provide his service record, but noted that "there is a Marine veteran with that name."
 
The two men were booked into Thurston County Jail, and a judge set bail for each at $500,000 on Tuesday during a preliminary appearance, according to the complaint. Military.com contacted the county public defense office that has taken on their cases, according to its director, Patrick O'Connor, but their attorneys had not been assigned as of Wednesday pending charges.
 
The Thurston County Sheriff's Office did not respond to the publication on Wednesday, but the elected sheriff, Derek Sanders, said on social media that an FBI SWAT team executed the warrant.
 
"The suspects identified in this case were actively involved in Nazi white nationalist efforts," he said. The county lists both veterans as being charged with unlawful possession of a short-barreled rifle and explosives.
 
The military has faced persistent challenges in securing its weapons and equipment, including a notable incident in November when 31 M17 pistols went missing from Fort Benning, Georgia; only three have been recovered. A 2021 investigation by The Associated Press revealed that at least 1,900 firearms disappeared from military stockpiles during the 2010s, with some later turning up at crime scenes. The losses have been blamed on a range of security lapses, including gaps in surveillance and poor recordkeeping.
 
Of the attack on the soldiers, Luke Baumgartner, a research fellow with George Washington University's Program on Extremism, said that "they were not afraid to use violence in order to gain access to the equipment that they were looking for."
 
"Veterans who end up becoming involved in these extremist movements often look backward toward their military service as a source of inspiration," he said, citing cases such as Timothy McVeigh, an Army veteran who killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing and also stole military equipment from a National Guard armory.
 
"They're just following in their footsteps; they're continuing this pattern that we've seen before," he said.
 
The complaint said that the pair were scanned into the main gate of JBLM around 8 p.m. Sunday and that they had allegedly used bolt cutters to break a lock into the Ranger compound. Investigators tied Frakes' vehicle to one seen on surveillance cameras on base. It was unclear how they had apparently easy access to the gate and how the unit accounted for its equipment if thefts had been occurring for two years.
 
"That tells me that there is a lack of proper accountability for sensitive items and military property going on within that unit," Baumgartner, an Army veteran, added.
 
The Pentagon has entirely abandoned addressing far-right extremism in the military community under the Trump administration. While there is no evidence service members or veterans are more likely to be radicalized, experts have said they are force multipliers to extremist organizations given their inherent credibility and tactical knowledge.
 
2:1 odds they get a pardon, 10:1 odds one of them is our next SECDEF

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McConnell was one of the only Republicans to vote against confirming Pete Hegseth. Mitch is still evil but I’m mildly amused at him basically getting Pete to confess that he has no real agency as SecDef under Trump. 

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Great article from New York Magazine about how truly fucked we are if we have to go to war.  Playing Secretary:  As war looms, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by his man?

The article (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-pentagon-leaks-signalgate-trump.html) is paywalled, but here is the free link: https://archive.is/xG4FF

Personally, I often have trouble determining who in this administration is the biggest dipshit.  It keeps me up at night.  Noem, RFK Jr., Linda McMahon, Bondi, Lutnick, Gabbard?  I'm getting cold sweats just thinking about it now.  Well, after reading this, you win the award today Pete Hegseth.  Congrats, but for those others that are now trailing, there's always tomorrow. 

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not reading to find out bc i honestly don't know what would be worse/more believable, infighting over online sock identities or infighting over actual socks 😐

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Trying to make the most of the coke he's snorted and jonesing for more. Drug addict.

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On 6/14/2025 at 1:37 AM, Colonel Sanders said:

Great article from New York Magazine about how truly fucked we are if we have to go to war.  Playing Secretary:  As war looms, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by his man?

The article (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-pentagon-leaks-signalgate-trump.html) is paywalled, but here is the free link: https://archive.is/xG4FF

Personally, I often have trouble determining who in this administration is the biggest dipshit.  It keeps me up at night.  Noem, RFK Jr., Linda McMahon, Bondi, Lutnick, Gabbard?  I'm getting cold sweats just thinking about it now.  Well, after reading this, you win the award today Pete Hegseth.  Congrats, but for those others that are now trailing, there's always tomorrow. 

Hegseth is by far the worst of a shitty cast of incompetance that is the Trump cabinet. He never should have been confirmed, and if we go to war, which this bullshit between Israel and Iran might mean we do end up doing so, will mean that American blood will be on the hands of every Senator who voted to confirm (all but three Republicans plus JD Vance). 

But I will say Noem, Lutnick, Biondi, RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, and Kash Patel are also absolutely horrific choices as well. Gross.

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6 hours ago, Chopper said:

Trying to make the most of the coke he's snorted and jonesing for more. Drug addict.

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It's that drip.

Don, Jr probably scores the really good stuff.

 

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On 6/14/2025 at 1:37 AM, Colonel Sanders said:

Great article from New York Magazine about how truly fucked we are if we have to go to war.  Playing Secretary:  As war looms, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon is beset by infighting over leaks, drugs, and socks. How long will Trump stand by his man?

The article (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-pentagon-leaks-signalgate-trump.html) is paywalled, but here is the free link: https://archive.is/xG4FF

Personally, I often have trouble determining who in this administration is the biggest dipshit.  It keeps me up at night.  Noem, RFK Jr., Linda McMahon, Bondi, Lutnick, Gabbard?  I'm getting cold sweats just thinking about it now.  Well, after reading this, you win the award today Pete Hegseth.  Congrats, but for those others that are now trailing, there's always tomorrow. 

This is one hundred percent the best quote from that article and is exactly the animating force behind Hegseth. 
 

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“We are currently clean on OPSEC,” Hegseth added. (“Why would Pete Hegseth say this into the Signal group?” Micah Lee, an independent security researcher, asks me, sounding genuinely puzzled. “I’ve put a lot of thought into this, and I think he was just trying to sound cool.”)

 

 

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1 hour ago, Chopper said:

This is amazing. The dude is so ignorant about the world and the Armed Forces he oversees.

 

 

While the opening salvo of questions was fulla kinda gotcha stuff (I did know the Navy 2027 answer), from the middle of the clip on was a complete embarrassment. The fact that he didn't know the answers to the Suwalki Gap and Kaliningrad questions is just beyond unfathomable and, moreover, his insistence on refusing to make amends for the Signal Chat shit only underscores what a complete shitheel this white-knuckler is.

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While the opening salvo of questions was fulla kinda gotcha stuff (I did know the Navy 2027 answer), from the middle of the clip on was a complete embarrassment. The fact that he didn't know the answers to the Suwalki Gap and Kaliningrad questions is just beyond unfathomable and, moreover, his insistence on refusing to make amends for the Signal Chat shit only underscores what a complete shitheel this white-knuckler is.

Year to be prepared for a war with China and the size of their naval fleet -- and the size of the US's -- are too gotcha for the SOD? I can see how it came off that way from the approach and I agree Kalingrad was a show-stopper but when you look at what he was asked, his failure to have even a semi-cogent response was remarkable.

This is another 5 minutes of questions by Rep Mikie Sherrill from the same hearing that was an infuriating/amazing/disgusting display of incompetence. She rips him for his propagandizing, and operational, managerial and budgetary failures.

 

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1 minute ago, Chopper said:

Year to be prepared for a war with China and the size of their naval fleet -- and the size of the US's -- are too gotcha for the SOD?

This is another 5 minutes of questions by Rep Mikie Sherrill from the same hearing that was an infuriating/amazing/disgusting display of incompetence. She rips him on operational, managerial and budgetary incompetence.

 

I wasn't trying to throw the guy a bone - just saying that thinking he'd know the precise figures is setting bar too high for this fuck. Ballpark would be acceptable for an off-the-cuff answer, which he didn't even attempt on the preparedness and number of Chinese warships questions.

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

I wasn't trying to throw the guy a bone - just saying that thinking he'd know the precise figures is setting bar too high for this fuck. Ballpark would be acceptable for an off-the-cuff answer, which he didn't even attempt on the preparedness and number of Chinese warships questions.

Yes, didn't intent to imply otherwise.

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This is the second time Whiskey Pete struck out on his own without telling Trump. I believe he thinks he can ignore Trump like the others in this regime and do as he pleases. He can’t, though, because even Trump, being unqualified himself, recognizes that weakness in others. Clearly Trump is not in control:

https://kyivindependent.com/hegseth-reportedly-authorized-ukraine-weapons-shipment-pause-without-informing-white-house-06-2025/

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authorized a temporary halt to American weapons shipments to Ukraine early in July without notifying the White House, CNN reported on July 8, citing five undisclosed sources.

The pause, approved on July 2, affected a package that included Patriot interceptor missiles, 155 mm artillery rounds, Hellfire missiles, Stinger and AIM air-to-air missiles, and other key munitions. 

Some of the weapons had already reached Poland and were en route to Kyiv when the shipment was stopped, according to NBC News.

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Hegseth did what his Russian masters demanded... Perfectly coordinated with an increase in Russian attacks

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1.  “That never happened. You’re spouting fake news.”

2.  “What did you have to say about the terrible way radical communist fascist fuckface Biden handled the Afghanistan withdrawal?”

3.  Even if I did do it, which I didn’t and would never consider doing, it’s not illegal and there’s no wrongdoing. 

4.  “Yeah, I fucking did it. So fucking what, cry about it, bitch.”

 

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Saw an article about Trump talking more shit on Putin than ever before.

Trump thought he could do peace there, but he was wrong.  So his supporters saw things as more weapons to Ukraine or peace and because of Trump's fellatio of Putin that Zelensky was the obstacle there.

Now that Trump can't do peace and Putin is being seen as the obstacle, I think Ukraine is gonna get popular again.

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8 hours ago, Satchel said:

This is the second time Whiskey Pete struck out on his own without telling Trump. I believe he thinks he can ignore Trump like the others in this regime and do as he pleases. He can’t, though, because even Trump, being unqualified himself, recognizes that weakness in others. Clearly Trump is not in control:

https://kyivindependent.com/hegseth-reportedly-authorized-ukraine-weapons-shipment-pause-without-informing-white-house-06-2025/

 

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth authorized a temporary halt to American weapons shipments to Ukraine early in July without notifying the White House, CNN reported on July 8, citing five undisclosed sources.

The pause, approved on July 2, affected a package that included Patriot interceptor missiles, 155 mm artillery rounds, Hellfire missiles, Stinger and AIM air-to-air missiles, and other key munitions. 

Some of the weapons had already reached Poland and were en route to Kyiv when the shipment was stopped, according to NBC News.

This was some Bridge Colby shit. Hegseth doesn’t do anything but PT with the enlisted men and make social media videos. And he’s too dumb to realize when he shouldn’t just do something Colby suggests.  
 

Colby’s been on a tear over there and is breaking a lot crockery with Allies and within the government. The consequences of not having a functioning NSC and a morning show SecDef are that his worst instincts don’t get nipped at the interagency level. 

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4 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Saw an article about Trump talking more shit on Putin than ever before.

Trump thought he could do peace there, but he was wrong.  So his supporters saw things as more weapons to Ukraine or peace and because of Trump's fellatio of Putin that Zelensky was the obstacle there.

Now that Trump can't do peace and Putin is being seen as the obstacle, I think Ukraine is gonna get popular again.

Trump finally untethered himself from Putin financially with the crypto payoff coin. Only money matters to dotard. Putin trying to exert leverage he no longer has hopefully means he just made the shit list.

But usually dotard fucks shit up somehow. He’ll probably TACO this, too. 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/us/politics/hegseth-pentagon-leadership.html

In the spring, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth decided not to promote a senior Army officer who had led troops over five tours in Afghanistan and Iraq because Mr. Hegseth suspected, without evidence, that the officer had leaked sensitive information to the news media, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.

When Lt. Gen. Douglas A. Sims II was cleared of the allegations, Mr. Hegseth briefly agreed to promote him, only to change course again early this month, the officials said. This time, Mr. Hegseth maintained that the senior officer was too close to Gen. Mark Milley, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff whom President Trump has accused of disloyalty.

Mr. Hegseth’s sudden reversal prompted a rare intervention from Gen. Dan Caine, the current chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He urged Mr. Hegseth to reconsider, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

Mr. Hegseth met with General Sims one final time but refused to budge. General Sims is expected to retire in the coming months after 34 years in the military, officials said. Through a spokesman, General Sims and General Caine declined to comment. A Pentagon spokesman declined to comment on Mr. Hegseth’s role.

The standoff over his promotion reflects an ongoing clash between Mr. Hegseth’s highly partisan worldview, in which he has written that the Democratic Party “really does hate America,” and the longstanding tradition of an apolitical military that pledges an oath to the Constitution.

Mr. Hegseth’s actions could shape the military’s top ranks for years to come. His insistence on absolute loyalty, backed with repeated threats of polygraphs, also creates uncertainty and mistrust that threaten to undermine the readiness and effectiveness of the force, officials said.

The tension between top military officers and their civilian leaders has been persistent since the earliest days of Mr. Trump’s second term, when senior administration officials ordered the removal of General Milley’s portrait from a Pentagon hallway.

General Caine, who pressed Mr. Hegseth on General Sims’s behalf, got the job of Joint Chiefs chairman after Mr. Hegseth and President Trump fired Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., his predecessor. Mr. Hegseth accused General Brown, who is Black, of prioritizing diversity over the combat effectiveness of the force.

Also removed during the first months of the new administration were the first woman to command the Navy, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; the first woman to command the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan; Mr. Hegseth’s senior military assistant, Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short; and the U.S. military representative to the NATO military committee, Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield. All were dismissed as part of a campaign to root out diversity, equity and inclusion from the military and restore what Mr. Hegseth has described as a “warrior ethos.”

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Mr. Hegseth also recently withdrew the nomination of Rear Adm. Michael “Buzz” Donnelly to lead the Navy’s Seventh Fleet in Japan — its largest overseas force — amid reports in conservative media that seven years earlier the admiral had allowed a drag performance to take place on the aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan.

The decision not to promote General Sims, who is white, seems unrelated to any issues of race or gender. Rather, the general’s career seems to have become tangled up in broader suspicions about leaks and a mistrust of senior military officers that have defined much of Mr. Hegseth’s first six months on the job.

Mr. Hegseth, a former Fox News host and an Iraq war veteran, came to the Pentagon with little managerial experience. Since his arrival, a series of firings and resignations in his inner circle have left him with only a skeleton staff of civilian aides to run his office. He has been without a permanent chief of staff since late April. Ricky Buria, a recently retired Marine colonel who has forged a close relationship with Mr. Hegseth, has been serving in the critical role. [Guardian article about Buria]

But White House officials, who have concerns about Mr. Buria’s competence and qualifications, have blocked Mr. Hegseth from formally appointing him to the job, officials said. Mr. Buria, meanwhile, has clashed repeatedly with many of Mr. Hegseth’s closest aides and some officers in the Pentagon.

This spring, Eric Geressy, a retired sergeant major who served with Mr. Hegseth in Iraq and now advises him in the Pentagon, threatened to quit after an argument with Mr. Buria, according to people with knowledge of the situation. The rift was reported earlier by The Washington Post. Mr. Geressy briefly went to his home in Florida before Mr. Hegseth persuaded him to return, officials said.

Mr. Hegseth is also still contending with a review by the Pentagon’s inspector general related to his disclosure on the Signal messaging app of the precise timing of U.S. fighter jets’ airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Houthi militia in Yemen in March.

The office has received evidence that the information that Mr. Hegseth put in the commercial chat app came from a classified Central Command document, according to two U.S. officials with knowledge of the review. The classified origins of the information were reported earlier by The Washington Post.

The infighting, investigations and personnel churn have strained Mr. Hegseth’s ability to manage critical operations in the Pentagon. Mr. Hegseth found himself in the cross hairs earlier this month after Democrats and Republicans in Congress blamed him for pausing critical shipments of interceptors and other arms to Ukraine without sufficiently consulting with the White House or the State Department.

The suspension was particularly jarring because just days earlier Mr. Trump had said he was open to selling more weapons to Ukraine after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of a NATO meeting in The Hague.

It also left the impression that Mr. Hegseth and his top aides had failed to keep the president and senior White House officials in the loop.

As aides to Mr. Hegseth traded blame, and then tried to play down the impact of the pause, Mr. Trump dramatically overruled the Pentagon, saying he was unhappy with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.

In a further twist, Mr. Trump endorsed a plan for NATO countries to send Patriot antimissile systems to Ukraine and replace them by purchasing new arms from the United States. It was an approach conceived by NATO countries. Mr. Hegseth has delegated responsibility for working out details of the arms transfers to senior U.S. military officers in Europe.

The frustration with Mr. Hegseth is seeping out. Senator Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican who cast the deciding vote to confirm Mr. Hegseth, this month called him ill-suited to lead the Pentagon.

“With the passing of time, I think it’s clear he’s out of his depth as a manager of a large, complex organization,” Mr. Tillis told CNN.

For now, Mr. Hegseth’s missteps do not seem to have hurt his standing with the person who matters most: Mr. Trump.

Like Mr. Trump, Mr. Hegseth had a career in television before joining the administration and relishes the performative aspects of his job. As defense secretary, he regularly posts videos that show him exercising with troops. The photo ops — known inside the Pentagon as “troop touches” — are a central part of almost all his public appearances, current and former aides said.

Several officials have complained that the photos and videos — including one that he posted from Omaha Beach in Normandy in which he joins Army Rangers carrying a soldier on a stretcher as part of D-Day remembrances — are distractions that serve primarily to bolster his image.

Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said that Mr. Hegseth retained Mr. Trump’s “full confidence” and cited the “critical role” he played “in ensuring the flawless execution” of the strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June.

Current and former military officials said that Mr. Trump largely bypassed Mr. Hegseth in the days leading up to the strikes and instead relied on General Caine and Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, the head of Central Command, for counsel.

But officials with knowledge of the president’s thinking said that Mr. Trump especially admired his defense secretary’s combative response at a news conference to reports questioning the effectiveness of the attack.

Today Mr. Hegseth is managing the Pentagon with a smaller immediate staff than when he started in January. Several top aides were forced out or quit. In late April, three top aides were fired and escorted from the building. Mr. Hegseth has repeatedly accused them, without offering evidence, of leaking classified information to the media.

The fired aides, who have not been charged with any wrongdoing, were recently told that an investigation into the allegations against them was in its final stages and would soon be shared with the Pentagon’s senior leaders, officials said.

In the wake of their dismissal and a series of negative stories about Mr. Hegseth’s performance in the job, Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, offered a window into how Mr. Hegseth views the department he now runs.

“This is what happens when the entire Pentagon is working against you and working against the monumental change you are trying to implement,” she said.

That same spirit seems to animate the Pentagon today. Only a few months ago, General Sims’s promotion to four stars seemed to be a given. Of the last 21 officers to hold his current position, 19 were promoted to four-star rank.

“He’s the type of person you would want your kids serving under — extremely dedicated, selfless and loyal,” said Brynt Parmeter, who stepped down in June as the Pentagon’s chief talent management officer and has known General Sims for more than three decades.

The Pentagon gave a more muted assessment. In a statement, Sean Parnell, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, thanked General Sims for his “decades of service.”

“We wish him well in his future endeavors,” Mr. Parnell wrote.

 

 



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