Aug. 27, 2025 6 AM PT
To the editor: Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse fired by Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth — simply one other story in regards to the Trump administration’s marketing campaign to make issues proper and proper with our army, proper (“Hegseth fires general whose agency’s intel report on strikes in Iran angered Trump,” Aug. 23)?
Improper. It’s a massive deal as a result of it’s a purge that seemingly has no finish. From February of this yr as much as the current, from Adm. Lisa Franchetti to Kruse, the Trump regime has been aggressively firing high army officers. This consists of, notably, Air Pressure Gen. CQ Brown Jr., who had 40 years of service. The administration has tossed numerous many years’ value of service and experience into the trash bin, all based mostly on manufactured excuses.
So one has to surprise — are we actually safer right this moment with President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Home Speaker Mike Johnson and Hegseth on the helm?
Richard Lewis, Ventura
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To the editor: I can not consider a higher hazard to our nation’s protection than a wannabe-warrior president and his sycophants, who hearth high generals and admirals — individuals who have labored their approach as much as critically necessary posts requiring intelligence and expertise — with the intention to substitute them with officers who will really feel they need to please each whim of this erratic and poorly knowledgeable commander in chief.
Mort Tuchin, Poway, Calif.
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To the editor: In Trump’s cartoonish presidency, Hegseth firing Kruse is like Mickey Mouse firing Walt Disney.
Richard Parr, Santa Monica
