The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has been terminated amid border, recruitment concerns, "erosion of trust," a senior ...

U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Lee Fagan was the first female uniformed leader of an armed forces branch.

Donald Trump has fired the head of the US Coast Guard for excessively focusing on diversity policies instead of border security. In one of his first acts after retaking the White House on Monday, ...

Shortly after being told to leave, her team received a call from aides to Sean Plankey, a DHS senior adviser ... up of Operation Fouled Anchor, which was the Coast Guard's internal investigation ...

But a senior DHS official said Fagan was ... the administration’s pick for Pentagon chief. The Defense Department, Coast Guard and National Security Council referred questions to the Department ...

A senior Homeland ... Operation Fouled Anchor as a reason for her removal. The military branch from 2014 to 2020 examined about 100 sexual assault allegations at the Coast Guard Academy that ...

Fagan, 61, was terminated “because of her leadership deficiencies, operational failures, and inability to advance the strategic objectives of the U.S. Coast Guard,” a senior DHS official said ...

The move, first reported by Fox News, was condemned by Trump’s political opponents and some retired senior leaders of the Coast Guard ... of Operation Fouled Anchor, an investigation in which ...

Huffman had terminated Fagan from her position because of "leadership deficiencies, operational failures, and inability to advance the strategic objectives of the U.S. Coast Guard," a senior ...

A senior official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard, cited an “excessive focus” ...