Former Coast Guard commandant evicted from base housing 2 weeks after firing: report

Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, the previous commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, who was terminated from her function final month over issues about points together with the border, recruitment and DEI points, was evicted from her admiral quarters residence with three hours of discover on Tuesday, in keeping with an NBC report citing two folks accustomed to the incident.

Fagan was fired by the Trump administration on the president’s second day in workplace. She had been given a 60-day waiver to seek out new housing however was knowledgeable at 2 p.m. Tuesday that she had three hours to depart her residence at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling in Washington, D.C., per the report.

The brief time-frame meant that she didn’t have sufficient time to take away “many — perhaps all — of her private objects and family items nonetheless there,” a former U.S. navy official informed the outlet. She spent the night time with mates, the report states.

COAST GUARD COMMANDANT TERMINATED OVER BORDER LAPSES, RECRUITMENT, DEI FOCUS: OFFICIAL

Then U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan talking throughout a Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Investigations listening to on Capitol Hill on June 11, 2024, in Washington, D.C. She was fired by the Trump administration final month.  (Getty Photos)

NBC reviews that Homeland Safety officers informed the performing commandant, Kevin Lunday, that Fagan wanted to depart the house. 

The outlet’s DHS supply couldn’t instantly confirm whether or not the directive had come from President Donald Trump. Homeland Safety oversees the U.S. Coast Guard.

Fox Information Digital has reached out to the White Home and the Coast Guard to verify the report however didn’t instantly obtain a response for publication.

Shortly after being informed to depart, her workforce acquired a name from aides to Sean Plankey, a DHS senior adviser and retired Coast Guard officer, instructing her to depart the home unlocked in order that the inside might be photographed, in keeping with one of many sources.

Fagan, a four-star admiral and the primary lady to steer a department of the navy, was terminated for quite a lot of causes together with an “erosion of belief,” management deficiencies, operational failures and an lack of ability to advance the strategic aims of the Coast Guard, a senior DHS official beforehand confirmed to Fox Information.

These embody the failure to handle border safety threats, inadequate management in recruitment and retention, mismanagement in buying key acquisitions reminiscent of icebreakers and helicopters, extreme deal with range, fairness and inclusion initiatives and an “erosion of belief” over the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor, which was the Coast Guard’s inner investigation into sexual assault circumstances on the Coast Guard Academy.

Then Adm. Linda Fagan attending the U.S. Coast Guard change of command ceremony at USCG Headquarters in Washington, D.C., on June 1, 2022. An NBC report states that she was given three hours to depart her residence on Tuesday.  (Getty Photos)

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Fagan is accused of ineffective deployment of Coast Guard belongings to help nationwide border safety, together with in intercepting fentanyl and different illicit substances. She is also accused of getting had inadequate coordination with DHS to prioritize operations alongside maritime borders.

The DHS official stated Fagan had important failures in recruiting personnel, which worsened points associated to operational readiness. The official added that the shortage of revolutionary methods to handle retention struggles in crucial specialties weakened workforce sustainability.

Underneath her management, there have been additionally persistent delays and price overruns in buying important platforms, together with icebreakers and helicopters, that the official stated undermined Coast Guard capabilities within the Arctic and different strategic areas. The official additional cited insufficient accountability for acquisition failures that have been highlighted throughout Trump’s first administration.

Fagan additionally prioritized DEI insurance policies, together with on the Coast Guard Academy, which diverted assets and focus from operational necessities.

In Operation Fouled Anchor, the cover-up of sexual assaults on the U.S. Coast Guard Academy “deeply eroded belief” within the Coast Guard among the many American public, the U.S. Congress and the navy. The Coast Guard didn’t disclose the existence of Operation Fouled Anchor till 2023, regardless of its existence from 2014 to 2019.

A U.S. Coast Guard vessel crusing off the coast of Key West, Florida. (iStock)

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Fagan was grilled by senators over the summer time when she testified at a listening to on Capitol Hill, the place she was questioned for not holding anybody accountable for the cover-up and withholding further paperwork congressional lawmakers requested concerning the mishandling of the issue on the service’s academy.

The official stated the failure to sufficiently tackle the systemic points revealed by the investigation has highlighted a “management tradition” unwilling to make sure accountability and transparency in defending service members.

Fagan served because the twenty seventh Commandant of the Coast Guard beginning on June 1, 2022. She was tasked with overseeing all world Coast Guard operations and 42,000 active-duty, 7,000 reserve and eight,700 civilian personnel, in addition to the help of 21,000 Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers.