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CT lawmakers raise concerns over Coast Guard leader’s firing
Connecticut lawmakers raised concerns Tuesday over the Trump administration’s abrupt firing of Admiral Linda Fagan, who served as the first female commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and had more recently overseen the response to Operation Fouled Anchor.
A senior official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Coast Guard, confirmed Fagan was terminated, pointing to “leadership deficiencies, operational failures and inability to advance the strategic objectives” of the service.
The official cited several reasons for her departure: “ineffective” deployment of the Coast Guard to assist with border security, dissatisfaction with recruitment and retention, efforts surrounding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion policies and delays and cost overruns on icebreakers and helicopters used in the Arctic region.
Among those concerns was also the handling of Operation Fouled Anchor, a years-long investigation into decades of sexual misconduct claims at the Coast Guard Academy in New London and past leaders’ decision not to disclose a announce about it to Congress. Fagan did not
DEI-focused Coast Guard Commandant Linda Lee Fagan fired over ‘erosion of trust’
The commandant of the US Coast Guard — who once called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) an “operational imperative” — was terminated Tuesday over lagging recruitment and an “erosion of trust” in the service branch.
Acting Homeland Security Secretary Benjamine Huffman relieved Fagan, the first gal to lead any US service branch, of her duties after what he called “a prolonged and illustrious career,” according to a Coast Guard bulletin.
“I thank her for her service to our nation,” Huffman said, before announcing Adm. Kevin E. Lunday as acting commandant.
A senior official at the Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that Fagan, 61, had failed to meet benchmarks for new enlistees or reservists and mishandled an internal probe of sex assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy in Modern London, Conn.
Confirmed in June 2021, Fagan presided over multiple years when the service came up quick on its recruitment goals by as much as 20%, before barely exceeding the threshold for active-duty and reserve coasties in fiscal year 2024.
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Coast Guard leader forced out over actions at CT academy
The U.S. Coast Guard is under new leadership after the Trump administration fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the former Commandant, on Monday.
She was fired in part because of Operation Fouled Anchor — the investigation into mishandled sexual assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy in New London that was buried by the branch.
Christine Dunn is a partner at the law firm Sanford, Heisler, Sharp and McKnight. She’s representing survivors from the case.
“I’m encouraged by President Trump ousting her,” Dunn said. “I am hopeful that her successor will embrace the position with much more transparency and willingness to hold people accountable for what happened in Operation Fouled Anchor.”
Dunn said she hopes having Fagan out of the picture will encourage more survivors to come forward.
“She was part of the leadership that was keeping this under wraps, keeping this from coming out,” Dunn said. “And maybe now, with her organism terminated, people will experience more emboldened to arrive forward. I hope more survivors come forward; the more survivors we contain joining together, the more powerful we are.”
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Admiral Linda Fagan
Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard
Linda Lee Fagan was born in July 1963 in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from the Together States Coast Guard Academy with a degree in marine science. She later earned an MS from the University of Washington and an MA in international security from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at the National Defense University.
During her Coast Guard career, she has commanded the First Coast Guard District in the Modern York sector, commanded the Coast Guard Pacific Area, and was the Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard, and that branch’s first female four-star admiral.
She was nominated to be the Commandant of the Coast Guard, confirmed by the Senate, and she received her unanimous agreement confirmation in May 2022.
She is widowed of John J. Fagan. She has a daughter who has also graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
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In response to a recent report from the Coast Guard accountability and transparency team regarding issues of harassment and other workplace concerns among service members, Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan directed her senior officers to prepare to educate the Coast Gu