{"id":249905,"date":"2026-04-03T11:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=249905"},"modified":"2026-04-03T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:58:58","slug":"pentagon-head-asks-us-military-chief-of-staff-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/249905\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon head asks US military chief of staff to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US Defense Secretary has asked the US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George to step down, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/04\/03\/us-defence-secretary-hegseth-asks-us-army-chief-to-step-down-as-iran-war-grinds-on\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Euronews<\/a>, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure.<\/p>\n<p>George &ldquo;will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately,&rdquo; said Sean Parnell, the Pentagon&rsquo;s top spokesman. He has held the post, which typically runs for four years, since August 2023 under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the request was not immediately known, but CBS quoted a source as saying Hegseth wanted someone who would implement his and President Donald Trump&rsquo;s vision for the Army.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Defense Secretary has asked the US Army Chief of Staff General Randy George to step down, according to Euronews, the Pentagon said Thursday without giving a reason for the departure. George &ldquo;will be retiring from his position as the 41st Chief of Staff of the Army effective immediately,&rdquo; said Sean Parnell, the Pentagon&rsquo;s top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":249769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249906,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249905\/revisions\/249906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}