Head of US Space Force base in Greenland is fired after Vance visit

WASHINGTON (AP) — The commandant of a U.S. Space Force basal successful Greenland has been fired aft she sent a base-wide email breaking with authoritative messaging pursuing Vice President JD Vance’s sojourn to the Danish territory that President Donald Trump is seeking to annex.

In a connection precocious Thursday, the Space Force said Col. Susan Meyers was removed arsenic commandant of Pituffik Space Base successful Greenland implicit a “loss of assurance successful her quality to lead.”

“Commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct, particularly arsenic it relates to remaining nonpartisan successful the show of their duties,” the connection said.

Military.com reported Thursday that Meyers sent the base-wide email defending the base’s narration with Denmark and Greenland pursuing Vance’s sojourn 2 weeks ago.

A U.S. authoritative confirmed Friday to The Associated Press that Meyers sent the email and its contents showing enactment for Greenland and Denmark. The authoritative spoke connected information of anonymity to supply further details not made public.

Greenland is simply a territory of Denmark, which is simply a NATO state of the United States. Trump wants to annex the territory, claiming it’s needed for nationalist information purposes, and Vance's sojourn successful precocious March acceptable disconnected heated rhetoric betwixt the U.S. and Denmark, with Trump refusing to instrumentality the usage of subject unit disconnected the table.

In a station connected X precocious Thursday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell linked to the Military.com communicative and said that “actions to undermine the concatenation of bid oregon to subvert President Trump’s docket volition not beryllium tolerated astatine the Department of Defense.”

Meyers' firing was the latest successful a bid of terminations of elder subject leaders, including respective pistillate leaders.

The Trump medication has antecedently fired Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan and U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the lone pistillate connected NATO’s subject committee.

Other cardinal firings were Gen. CQ Brown Jr., president of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Tim Haugh, commandant of U.S. Cyber Command and manager of the National Security Agency.