{"id":70195,"date":"2026-03-27T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/hegseth-reportedly-cuts-two-black-men-and-two-women-from-military-promotion-list\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:56:04","slug":"hegseth-reportedly-cuts-two-black-men-and-two-women-from-military-promotion-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/hegseth-reportedly-cuts-two-black-men-and-two-women-from-military-promotion-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth reportedly cuts two Black men and two women from military promotion list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US defense secretary axed the four officers\u2019 names from list to become one-star generals, the New York Times reports<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers \u2013 two women and two Black men \u2013 to become one-star generals.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining promotion list includes about three dozen officers, most of whom are white men, though a few women and Black officers are still included, according<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/27\/us\/hegseth-promotion-list.html\"> to the New York Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/27\/pete-hegseth-cuts-black-men-women-military-promotion-list\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US defense secretary axed the four officers\u2019 names from list to become one-star generals, the New York Times reports Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, is reportedly attempting to block the military promotion of four officers \u2013 two women and &#8230; <a title=\"Hegseth reportedly cuts two Black men and two women from military promotion list\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/27\/hegseth-reportedly-cuts-two-black-men-and-two-women-from-military-promotion-list\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Hegseth reportedly cuts two Black men and two women from military promotion list\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}