Defense Sec. Mark Esper's chief of staff, Eric Chewning, will leave the Defense Dept. at the end of the month, the Pentagon announced.
's chief of staff, Eric Chewning, will leave the Defense Department at the end of the month, the Pentagon announced Monday.
The departure of Chewning, who has worked at the Pentagon since October 2017 and has been chief of staff since January 2019, comes as other senior defense officials have resigned in recent weeks, among them Randy Schriver, the assistant secretary for Asian and Pacific affairs; Kari Bingen, the principal deputy undersecretary for intelligence; Jimmy Stewart, the acting undersecretary for personnel and readiness; and Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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