WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Jack Reed issued the following press release:
Today, after NBC News reported that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth personally intervened in the promotion process of more than a dozen senior officers across all four service branches (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-intervened-military-promotions-dozen-senior-officers-rcna266062) and other outlets reported on a string of wartime firings of top Army officers (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/04/02/hegseth-ousts-army-general-randy-george/), U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement:
"If Secretary Hegseth intervened to block or delay the pr...