U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan, the archetypal pistillate uniformed person of an equipped forces subdivision successful U.S. history, was ousted by the Trump medication with nary mentation precocious Monday.

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Benjamine Huffman relieved Fagan of her duties arsenic Coast Guard commandant, noting she “served a agelong and illustrious career, and I convey her for her work to our nation,” according to a connection sent to each Coast Guard members Tuesday. 

Adm. Kevin Lunday, the erstwhile vice commandant of the Coast Guard, volition instrumentality over as acting commandant, the connection notes, offering nary different details of the switch.

The Coast Guard referred questions to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which did not respond arsenic of property time.

An online biography on Fagan was unavailable Tuesday morning, and the Coast Guard’s authoritative website listing the service’s elder enactment showed a blank space under “Commandant.”

Fagan, besides the Coast Guard’s archetypal pistillate four-star admiral, had served arsenic the subject branch’s 27th commandant since June 1, 2022, aft erstwhile President Biden chose her to pb the service  of 42,000 active-duty, 7,000 reserve and 8,700 civilian personnel.

But a elder DHS official told Fox News that Fagan was relieved owed to borderline information concerns, recruitment and acquisition issues and an “erosion of trust” pursuing an interior probe into intersexual battle cases astatine the Coast Guard Academy. 

At the clip she took over, Fagan adopted a unit that for years had struggled to conscionable its recruiting goals — including nether President Trump during his archetypal term. But the Coast Guard was capable to conscionable its extremity conscionable past twelvemonth aft it brought connected much recruiters.

Also nether Fagan, the Coast Guard was deed with a large contention with Operation Fouled Anchor, an interior probe led by the subdivision investigating intersexual misconduct astatine the Coast Guard Academy successful Connecticut betwixt 1988 and 2006. The investigation, closed successful January 2020 during Trump’s archetypal administration, was not voluntarily disclosed to Congress oregon the nationalist by the Coast Guard until 2023 aft being withheld by the service’s commandant astatine the time, Adm. Karl Schultz. 

Fagan, who was grilled implicit the report by senators successful June, acknowledged the service’s “failure to stock the study with Congress was a mistake.”

Her firing is the archetypal of respective unit changes expected to impact respective apical U.S. subject members, arsenic Trump has promised to oust the generals and admirals helium has deemed “woke.”

And Pete Hegseth, Trump’s nominee to pb the Pentagon, has said eliminating diverseness and equity efforts successful the subject volition beryllium a apical precedence if he’s confirmed.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chair Gen. CQ Brown Jr., whom Trump had threatened to occurrence erstwhile successful power, said Monday helium plans to remain in his relation arsenic the country’s highest-ranking subject official.

Updated astatine 12:20 p.m. EST