The top Defense Department spokesman is getting ahead of a purported letter coming together to raise the signers’ collective concerns surrounding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s performance. The Daily Mail reported on the creation of this letter circulating around military and civilian officials within the department on Wednesday.

A raft of top and mid-level Pentagon officials plans to call for the removal of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. Since May, a group of Department of Defense (DOD) personnel, made up of officials from every branch save the Coast Guard,