The Trump administration fired Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, U.S. officials said on Monday, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth continued his purge of military leaders who have been targeted by conservatives.

Admiral Chatfield, who served in the Navy as the U.S. representative to NATO’s military committee, has joined a list of female leaders and people of color who have been fired. It includes the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.; the Navy’s former chief, Adm. Lisa Franchetti; Lt. Gen. Jennifer Short, a former senior military assistant to the defense secretary; and the former Coast Guard commandant, Adm. Linda Lee Fagan.

Also fired recently were Gen. Timothy D. Haugh, who was commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency, and Gen. James Slife, the former vice chief of staff of the Air Force.

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