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The Pentagon announced on Friday the four new senior advisers, Pete Hegseth, to four new senior advisers for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a five senior staffer’s Exodus in the past few weeks.
New advisers include former junior military assistant, Patrick Weaver, former Department of Defense “Special Assistant” and Justin Fulcher, top Pentagon officials.
Sean Parnell, who served as Pentagon press secretary, has been promoted to assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Senior Advisor.
“Regular workforce adjustments are a characteristic of any efficient organization,” Kingsley Wilson, acting press secretary for the Pentagon, said in a statement announcing the new role.
She continued: “Secretary Heggs will continue to be proactive in personnel decisions and will work to ensure that the Department of Defense has the right position to implement President Trump’s agenda.”
The statement masked the recent unrest in the department, with top officers Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll and Darin Selnick being charged with leaking information earlier this month, despite the three denied it.
John Ullyot, another Pentagon spokesman, decided to leave the “completely chaotic” building under Hegseth.
Hegseth’s chief of staff, Joe Kasper, initially intended to hold another job in the building, chose to leave the Pentagon and return to the private sector, although he will continue to be a special government employee.
All the turmoil arose because Hegseth was besieged after the revelation of the second signal chat group, allegedly sharing highly sensitive information about the Hotty militants in Yemen with his wife, brother, lawyer and others in his inner circle.
The four people in the new Pentagon position seem to have little experience in government.
Parnell is a former Army Ranger who served in the military for six years before hosting the 2020 2020 campaign for the U.S. House. He then briefly ran for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, and even received recognition from President Trump before the 2022 primary, but suspended his campaign after being deceived by allegations of domestic abuse.
Buria, a Marine and former assistant to Biden Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, has made several combat deployments and has quickly gained the trust of Hergers. But his role in helping facilitate the use of signals within the Pentagon is under scrutiny.
Fulcher, founder of a bankrupt global telemedicine startup, is part of the Doge team of billionaire Elon Musk. He served in the Department of Homeland Security’s first Trump administration and later earned his master’s degree in immutable and terrorism studies at the Middlebury International Institute in Monterrey in 2023.
But Fulcher’s certificate and claims were questioned in a Forbes article last month, where a former business partner said Fulcher owed him hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Weaver seems to have the most administration experience, he is a former special assistant to Hegseth, who has also served in the first Trump administration of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Council (DHS). After that, he was the legislative director of two Republican lawmakers.
New Acting Press Secretary Wilson also has limited experience working in the Pentagon and the entire government. The 26-year-old, whose father, Steve Cortes, is Trump’s campaign adviser, has served as deputy press secretary since February.
Last month, lawmakers and Jewish groups criticized Wilson’s history of anti-Semitic, social media posts and public comments before joining the Trump administration.