The former head of the U.S. Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Lee Fagan, has been evicted from her admiral quarters home at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling after President Donald Trump fired her for pushing a far-left agenda.
As Slay News reported, Fagan was terminated from her role last month over concerns about issues including the border, recruitment, and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) issues.
On Tuesday, Fagan was evicted from her admiral quarters home with three hours of notice, according to an NBC report citing two people familiar with the incident.
Fagan was fired by the Trump administration on the president’s second day in office.
She was informed at 2 p.m. Tuesday that she had three hours to leave her home at the military base in Washington D.C., per the report.
A former U.S. military official told the outlet that the short time frame meant that she did not have enough time to remove “many — maybe all — of her personal items and household goods still there.”
She spent the night with friends, the report states.
NBC reports that officials from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) told the acting commandant, Kevin Lunday, that Fagan needed to leave the home.
However, the outlet’s DHS source was not able to confirm whether the directive had come from Trump or Homeland Security, which oversees the U.S. Coast Guard.
Shortly after being told to leave, Fagan’s team received a call from aides to Sean Plankey, a DHS senior adviser and retired Coast Guard officer.
Plankey instructed Fagan to leave the house unlocked so that the interior could be photographed, according to one of the sources.
Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch of the military was terminated for a variety of reasons.
These include the failure to address border security threats, insufficient leadership in recruitment and retention, mismanagement in acquiring key acquisitions such as icebreakers and helicopters, excessive focus on DEI initiatives.
She was also accused of an “erosion of trust” over the mishandling and cover-up of Operation Fouled Anchor.
The operation was the Coast Guard’s internal investigation into sexual assault cases at the Coast Guard Academy.
Fagan is accused of ineffective deployment of Coast Guard assets to support national border security, including in intercepting fentanyl and other illicit substances.
She also is accused of having had insufficient coordination with DHS to prioritize operations along maritime borders.
The DHS official said Fagan had significant failures in recruiting personnel.
These failures worsened issues related to operational readiness.
The official added that the lack of innovative strategies to address retention struggles in critical specialties weakened workforce sustainability.
Under her leadership, there were also persistent delays and cost overruns in acquiring essential platforms, including icebreakers and helicopters.
The DHS official said the delays undermined Coast Guard capabilities in the Arctic and other strategic regions.
The official further cited inadequate accountability for acquisition failures that were highlighted during Trump’s first administration.
Fagan also prioritized Marxism-rooted DEI policies, including at the Coast Guard Academy, which diverted resources and focus from operational essentials.
In Operation Fouled Anchor, the cover-up of sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy “deeply eroded trust” in the Coast Guard among the American public, the U.S. Congress, and the military.
The Coast Guard did not disclose the existence of Operation Fouled Anchor until 2023, despite its existence from 2014 to 2019.
Fagan was grilled by senators over the summer when she testified at a hearing on Capitol Hill.
During the hearing, she was questioned for not holding anyone accountable for the cover-up and withholding additional documents congressional lawmakers requested about the mishandling of the problem at the service’s academy.
The official said the failure to sufficiently address the systemic issues revealed by the investigation has highlighted a “leadership culture” unwilling to ensure accountability and transparency in protecting service members.
Fagan served as the 27th Commandant of the Coast Guard starting on June 1, 2022.
She was tasked with overseeing all global Coast Guard operations and 42,000 active-duty, 7,000 reserve, and 8,700 civilian personnel, as well as the support of 21,000 Coast Guard Auxiliary volunteers.
