Hegseth fires U.S. Navy Chief of Staff

In a decisive bit of housecleaning that has the swamp creatures squirming, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday showed Jon Harrison the door as the Navy's chief of staff, just days after the Senate greenlit Hung Cao as the service's new undersecretary.

This Harrison clown's got zerp military chops before getting shoehorned into the job, where he played budget fairy and policy puppet-master for the Navy, all while neutering the undersecretary's clout like it was yesterday's news.

"Jon Harrison will no longer serve as chief of staff to the Secretary of the Navy," the Department of Defense told the New York Post in a statement. "We are grateful for his service to the department." [Yeah, sure they are.]

Harrison tag-teamed with Navy Sec. John Phelan, another civilian suit with zilch in uniform experience, to ram through a bureaucratic shake-up, swapping out the yes-men who would prop up Cao and stacking the deck so the secretary's office calls all the shots on his military aides, Politico reports.

Talk about a power grab wrapped in red tape. And get this: Harrison's pink slip drops right on the heels of Hegseth's May edict to cull a fifth of the Pentagon's four-star bloat: generals and admirals who've been more focused on pronouns than projectiles.

Hegseth has been on a tear, booting high-octane brass left and right, including the military's only two female four-stars, The Guardian whines.

Then on Tuesday, Hegseth lit into the top echelons at Quantico, VA, torching the armed forces' dive into "woke" quicksand and blasting those godawful diversity-and-inclusion fever dreams that turned warriors into workshop attendees. 

About time someone drained that rainbow swamp.

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