Chatfield was previously the first woman to lead the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. Her tenure there later made her a target of conservative advocacy groups, one of whom claimed she was overly concerned with diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, initiatives in a December letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
VADM Chatfield was one of the twenty officers targeted by the American Accountability Foundation in a letter to SECDEF. AAF urged Hegseth to fire senior leaders because the woke takeover of the military is a major threat to our national security,
The only other officer on the list who has been relieved thus far is the [Chief of Naval Operations].