A prime common on the Pentagon was instantly faraway from his senior put up earlier this week and has now retired, in response to two sources conversant in the scenario.
Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia served within the Joint Workers because the Joint Workers’s Director for Technique, Plans & Coverage, an vital workplace, that handles long-term strategic planning and is understood in navy jargon because the J-5.
This picture offered by the U.S. Military reveals Maj. Gen. Brett Sylvia, at a one hundred and first Airborne Division change of command ceremony at Fort Campbell, Ky., Might 30, 2025.
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Sylvia was faraway from the place for a insecurity, in response to one of many sources. Together with his removing Sylvia retired from the U.S. Military after having served within the function for 11 months.
Sylvia turns into the most recent senior navy officer to be both fired or sidelined throughout Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth’s tenure. Nevertheless, one supply mentioned it was unclear whether or not Sylvia’s removing was ordered by Hegseth or Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers.
“The Chairman, the Joint Workers, and the Joint Pressure lengthen our deepest gratitude to Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia and his household for his or her 32 years of distinguished service to our nation,” mentioned a Joint Workers spokesperson.
“We want him and his household the very best as they graduate to new alternatives and the subsequent chapters of their lives,” the spokesman added.
Earlier this week, Sylvia was listed as nonetheless being the director of the planning workplace on the Joint Workers’s web site, however the web site now lists solely the title of Vice Director Maj. Gen. Mark H. Slocum.
The J-5 is acknowledged as one of many Joint Workers’s most vital directorates within the Joint Workers together with the directorate for Operations, the J-3, that’s accountable for the planning and execution of navy operations.
Final yr, two outstanding Military generals serving on the Joint Workers had been sidelined and needed to retire early, together with Sylvia’s rapid predecessor because the J-5, Lt. Gen. Joseph “JP” McGee, who retired final October.
McGee had been nominated underneath the Biden administration to develop into the director of the Joint Workers, however he was not renominated by the Trump administration. With no different slots out there to him as a 3 or 4 star common he needed to retire.
Additionally retiring early final yr was Lt. Gen. Douglas Sims, the director of the Joint Workers, who was broadly anticipated to be on observe for a fourth star.
