EXCLUSIVE: The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has been terminated implicit concerns astir the border, recruitment concerns and an "erosion of trust," a elder DHS authoritative confirmed to Fox News.
Adm. Linda Lee Fagan has been terminated by the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman, the authoritative said.
Fagan has demonstrated enactment deficiencies, operational failures and an inability to beforehand the strategical objectives of the Coast Guard.
Admiral Linda Fagan. (U.S. Coast Guard)
These see the nonaccomplishment to code borderline information threats, insufficient enactment successful recruitment and retention, mismanagement successful acquiring cardinal acquisitions specified arsenic icebreakers and helicopters, excessive absorption connected diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and an "erosion of trust" implicit the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor.
Fagan served arsenic the 27th Commandant of the Coast Guard starting connected June 1st, 2022. She was tasked with overseeing each planetary Coast Guard operations and 42,000 active-duty, 7,000 reserve and 8,700 civilian personnel, arsenic good arsenic the enactment of 21,000 Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers.