Justin Fulcher, a top adviser to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, has left the Pentagon, Fulcher confirmed on Saturday. Why it matters: Fulcher's departure marks at least the sixth senior-level staff to leave the Pentagon in recent months,

Pete Hegseth has lost his sixth senior aide in as many months, with the defence secretary’s struggle to retain key staff leaving the Pentagon in limbo.

Hegseth, a former Fox News personality, has been embroiled in several high-profile scandals since taking office, including mistakenly adding Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat that included discussions of sensitive military plans detailing upcoming military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.