Trump fires Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, different senior officers

President Trump abruptly fired Air Power Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and revered officer as a part of a marketing campaign to rid the navy of leaders who help range and fairness within the ranks.

The ouster of Brown, solely the second Black normal to function chairman, is bound to ship shock waves by the Pentagon. His 16 months within the job had been consumed with the warfare in Ukraine and the expanded battle within the Center East.

“I wish to thank Normal Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 years of service to our nation, together with as our present Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers. He’s a wonderful gentleman and an excellent chief, and I want an incredible future for him and his household,” Mr. Trump posted on social media.

Mr. Trump says he’s nominating retired Air Power Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to be the subsequent chairman.

Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth additionally introduced in an announcement Friday night that Chief of Naval Operations Lisa Franchetti and Vice Chief of Workers of the Air Power James Slife had been additionally being fired. Franchetti made historical past in 2023 when she turned the primary lady to guide the Navy. 

Franchetti was knowledgeable in a name from Hegseth that he meant to switch her, a protection official informed CBS Information. The decision occurred earlier than his assertion was issued. 

Choose advocates normal for the Military, Navy and Air Power had been additionally being changed, Hegseth stated. 

Mr. Trump acted regardless of help for Brown amongst key members of Congress and a seemingly pleasant assembly with him in mid-December, when the 2 had been seated subsequent to one another for a time on the Military-Navy soccer sport. Brown had been assembly repeatedly with Hegseth, who took excessive Pentagon job simply 4 weeks in the past.

Hegseth stated in his assertion that Caine “embodies the warfighter ethos and is strictly the chief we have to meet the second. I stay up for working with him.”

Hegseth stated Brown “served with distinction in a profession spanning 4 a long time of honorable service,” and praised him as a “considerate adviser.”

Caine was sworn in as affiliate director for Navy Affairs on the Central Intelligence Company in November 2021, in line with his biography on the Air Power’s web site, and his most up-to-date put up was as director of particular applications for the Protection Division’s Particular Entry Program Central Workplace on the Pentagon. As a command pilot, he has logged greater than 2,800 hours in an F-16, together with greater than 150 fight hours.

He earned a bachelor’s diploma in economics from the Virginia Navy Institute in 1990.

Caine is a three-star normal. Historically, four-star generals are nominated to chair the Joint Chiefs of Workers.