Space base commander fallen after an email rejecting JD Vance

Colonel Susan Meyers, the commander of the Pituffik space base in Greenland, was withdrawn from his role on Thursday after a report detailing an email that he wrote distancing himself from the comments of Vice President JD Vance during his visit to the semi -autonomous Danish territory.

A statement issued by the US space force. Uu said that Meyers was taken from work by Colonel Kenneth Klock “for loss of confidence in his ability to lead.”

“The commanders are expected to adhere to the highest standards of conduct, especially in regard to the remaining non -partisans in the performance of their duties,” adds the statement.

Meyers is being replaced by Colonel Shawn Lee.

Although the US army has not specified a reason for its removal, the spokesman for the Chief Pentagon Sean Parnell accused Meyers of undermining Trump’s priorities.

“The actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert the agenda of President Trump will not be tolerated in the Department of Defense,” Parnell wrote in X, previously Twitter, citing an article published by Military.com on Thursday that reports an email allegedly written by Meyers, breaking with Vance’s comments during his visit of Greenland.

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Parnell’s message was replaced by the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.

Before the dismissal of Meyers as commander of the 821º group of the space base, Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO.) Had requested an investigation into the report, claiming that, if it is true, his email represented an “extraordinary and deeply worrying action for a military commander sitting.”

“This behavior, if not controlled, undermines civil control of the military and establishes a dangerous precedent within the ranks,” he wrote in a letter to the interim secretary of the Gary Ashworth Air Force.

In the message aimed at all staff at the base on March 31, three days after Vance’s trip, Meyers said that a long time had spent how the comments of the vice president may have affected them, according to Military.com.

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“I do not suppose to understand the current policy, but what I know is that the concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice President Vance do not reflect on Friday of the Pituffik space base,” he wrote in his message, the point of sale reported.

“I compromise that, as long as I am lucky to lead this base, all our flags will proudly fly, together,” his message continued.

Greenland would be better “under the United States security umbrella than the Denmark security umbrella,” Vance said.

“It is the policy of the United States that will change,” he added.

“This is the world order that we have built together throughout the Atlantic during generations: it cannot be attached to another country, even with a discussion about international security,” Frederiksen said.