'This Ain't About Merit': High-Ranking Female Military Official Stood Her Ground

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'This Ain't About Merit': High-Ranking Female Military Official Stood Her Ground Against Trump's 'Ego' When She Refused to Hang His Pictures and Got Fired for It, Jasmine Crockett Claims

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Story by Atlanta Black Star News (11 April 2025)

The Pentagon announced Wednesday Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield was fired from her position as U.S. representative to NATO's military committee "due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead."

Chatfield, one of only a few female three-star officers in the Navy and the first woman to lead the Naval War College, served in Afghanistan as a helicopter pilot. In her most recent position, she was assigned to the alliance's nuclear planning group, acting as a liaison between military and political leadership.

Texas congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, a persistent critic of the Trump administration, said Chatfield wasn't fired because of her job performance but rather for disloyalty to the commander in chief and her boss at the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

"They fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield — not because she couldn't do the job, but because she wouldn't hang up pictures of Trump and Hegseth," Crockett alleged, without evidence. "This ain't about merit — it's about ego."