US army suspends commander after Trump and Hegseth portraits flipped to face wall

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Baez Ramirez was suspended less than a week after the Defense Department said it would investigate photographs shared on social media that purportedly showed a leadership board at Fort McCoy that conspicuously did not have pictures of President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. A chorus of unsourced social media accounts claimed the board’s missing photos were intentional under Baez Ramirez.

But Army officials did not connect the missing photos to Baez Ramirez’s removal, and such boards are ubiquitous on all military installations. They present a visual key to a unit’s or ship’s chain of command, from the president’s role as commander-in-chief down to the ranking officials in the building or unit where the board is hung. A large base might have dozens or more similar displays throughout its buildings.

However, in an earlier statement, Army Reserve officials appeared to confirm that Baez Ramirez had no role in the missing pictures and had taken steps to restore them.

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