Pentagon Pete Aide Quits to ‘Chop Lots of Firewood’

Ken Cedeno / REUTERS A top aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced his resignation on Monday and pledged to keep quiet about his time in the Trump administration. Ron Moeller, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for strategic readiness, was sworn in last August. In a post on X, Moeller said that he had planned to be in the role for a year. “Today I submitted my formal resignation as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Strategic Readiness,” he wrote. “When I took on this task for…