The Pentagon removed Col. Susannah Meyers from command of the U.S. military’s Greenland base Thursday after she criticized Vice President JD Vance’s comments during a recent visit to the Arctic outpost.
Meyers sent an internal email to Pituffik Space Base personnel effectively rebuking Vance’s criticism of Denmark — of which Greenland is a territory — and undercutting the Trump administration’s Arctic agenda, Military.com first reported. The message, sent just days after Vance’s March 28 visit, claimed the vice president’s remarks were not representative of the base or its mission, a move the Pentagon viewed as publicly undermining civilian leadership. (RELATED: Marco Rubio Tells Megyn Kelly That Trump’s Greenland Bid ‘Is Not A Joke’)
“I do not presume to understand current politics,” Meyers wrote, according to the Military.com. “But what I do know…
