A US army commander has been suspended after refusing to display a photo of Donald Trump.
Fort McCoy commander Colonel Sheyla Baez Ramirez was relieved of duty after the Wisconsin army base failed to put up pictures of Mr Trump, JD Vance, the vice-president, and Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, on a wall displaying its chain of command.
It comes after the defence department launched a probe to investigate why the wall, which would typically display images showing those in charge, had been left with empty frames.
The blank frames have since been filled, with the department’s rapid response team posting on X earlier this month: “Regarding the Ft McCoy Chain of Command wall controversy…. we fixed it! Also, an investigation has begun to figure out exactly what happened.”
The US Army Reserve Command confirmed Col Ramirez’s suspension but denied misconduct was the cause.
“This suspension is unrelated to any misconduct,” a spokesman said. “The Army Reserve has no further details to provide.”
Col Ramirez became the garrison commander in July last year, having served as chief of the reserve programme and army intelligence security commander at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, as well as in other roles throughout the armed services.
Earlier this month, the Pentagon fired the head of the US military’s Pituffik Space Base in Greenland for “subverting President Trump’s agenda”.
Colonel Susannah Meyers was accused of “undermining” Mr Vance by email, distancing herself from the vice-president’s criticism of Denmark and calls to take over Greenland during a speech at the base last month.
Mr Hegseth, earlier this month, also fired Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield, who served as the US military representative to the NATO military committee, owing to “a loss of confidence in her ability to lead”.
Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to serve as the head of the US Navy, and Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead the US Coast Guard, were both fired earlier this year.