Washington (AP) President Donald Trump abruptly dismissed Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. As chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, as a result of which a history -making hunter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign was led by his defense minister, liberated the army of leaders who support diversity and fairness in the ranks.
Brown's expulsion, only the second black general to serve as a chairman, will certainly send shock waves by the Pentagon. His 16 months in the work were digested with the war in Ukraine and the extensive conflict in the middle east.
“I want to thank General Charles 'Cq' Brown for more than 40 years of service to our country, also as our current chairman of the joint staff chefs. He is a nice gentleman and an excellent leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family, “Trump posted on social media.
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Brown's public support for Black Lives Matter after the George Floyd police had felt him for the wars of the government against “Wekism” in the army. His expulsion is the last revolution at the Pentagon, which is planning to cut 5,400 civilian probation of employees from next week and to identify $ 50 billion in programs that can be reduced next year to destroy those savings to the priorities of Trump Financing.
Trump said he has retired Air Force Lt. Gene. Then “Razin” Caine nominates as the next chairman. Caine is a career F-16 pilot who served in active service and in the National Guard and, according to his military biography, recently was the associate director of military affairs at the CIA.
Caine's military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operational messages and positions in some of the most classified special access programs of the Pentagon.
However, he has not identified important assignments in the law as conditions for the job, including serving as the vice chairman, a warrior commander or a service chief. That requirement can be waived if the “president such action determines is necessary in the national interest.”
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Defense secretary Pete Hegseeth, in a statement that both Caine and Brown, announced the dismissals of two extra senior officers: head of the Navy Operations ADM. Lisa Franchetti and Vice -Staff of the Air Force Gen. Jim Slife.
Franchetti becomes the second top female military officer who is fired by the Trump government. Trump fired Coast Guard Commander ADM. Linda Fagan only a day after he was sworn.
Franchetti, a Surface Warfare Officer, has ordered all levels and leads our 6th Fleet and US Naval Forces Korea. She was the second woman to be promoted to four-star Admiraal, and she made several commitment, including as a commander of a naval torpedoer and two stints as plane carrier Strike Group Commander.
Slife led Air Force Special Operations Command before he became the service chef of the service and was deployed in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
Trump has delivered his executive authority in a much stronger way in his second term, where most of the Biden administration officials are removed, although many of those positions are meant to be transferred from one administration to another.
The role of the chairman was founded in 1949 as an adviser to the President and Minister of Defense, as a way to filter all views of the service leaders and to provide that information to the White House more easily without the president being there, individual military branch , according to a briefing from the Atlantic Council, written by retired Major General Arnold Punaro. The role has no actual command authority.
Trump acted despite the support for Brown at important members of the congress and an apparently friendly meeting with him in mid-December, when the two sat side by side for a while in the football match of the army Navy.
The dismissal follows on days of speculation after a list of officers, including Brown, was dismissed on Capitol Hill – but in particular not through a formal notification to one of the Republican chairmen of the committees of the house or the senate -arming services.
Senator Roger Wicker, Gop chairman of the Senate Guard Services Committee, did not mention the name of Caine Friday in a statement.
“I thank Chairman Brown for his decades of honorable service to our nation,” said Wicker. “I am convinced that Secretary Hegseeth and President Trump will select a qualified and capable successor for the critical function of chairman of the joint staff chefs.”
Congress democratic leaders called the fired as a direct attempt to politize the army.
“A professional, apolitical army that is subordinate to the civilian government and supports the Constitution instead of a political party is essential for the survival of our democracy,” said Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, member of the member of the senate -arming service committee, said in a statement on Friday. “For the sake of our troops and the well-being of every American, the chosen leaders, especially senate-republicans-must defend that lasting principle against corrosive attempts to restore the army in a part-time force. '
Brown risked the discussion of racing
Brown's future was questioned last month during the confirmation hearing for Hegseeth. Asked if he would dismiss Brown, Hegseeth replied: “Every senior officer will be revised on the basis of meritocracy, standards, deadliness and dedication to legal orders they will receive.”
Hegseeth had previously focused on Brown. “First of all you have to fire, you know, you have to dismiss the chairman of joint leaders,” he said flat in a podcast in November. And in one of his books he wondered if Brown got the job because he was black.
“Was it because of his skin color? Or are skill? We will never know, but always doubt – which seems unfair to the face for CQ. But because he has turned the racing card one of his biggest telephone cards, it doesn't really matter, “wrote Hegseeth.
While on January 27 on January 27 he entered the Pentagon on his first day as a defense chief, Hegseeth was immediately asked if he was planning to fire Brown.
“I am now with him,” said Hegseeth, beating brown on the back. “I look forward to working with him.”
Brown, who spent troops on Friday at the border between the US and Mexico, drawn attention to himself for speaking about the death of George Floyd in 2020. Although he knew it was risky, he said, discussions with his wife and sons about The convincing murder he had to say something.
While protests rowed the nation, Brown placed a video message to the Air Force entitled: “Here is what I am thinking about.” He described the pressure accompanied by one of the few black men in his unit. He remembered that he would push himself as a pilot and officer flawlessly all his life, but still had to deal with a bias. He said he had been questioned about his letters of faith, even when he was wearing the same escape suit and wings as any other pilot .
The path from Brown to the Presidency was disturbed – he was one of the more than 260 senior military officers whose nominations were stuck for months by the Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville of Alabama. But when the senate's mood was finally taken in September 2023, Brown was easily confirmed by a vote of 89-8.
It was 30 years ago that Colin Powell became the first black chairman, who served from 1989 to 1993. But while Afro-Americans made 17.2% of the 1.3 million active service members, only 9% of officers were black, according to A 2021 report from the Ministry of Defense.
The service of Brown as chairman wrote history in the sense that this was the first time that both the Minister of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and the joint Chiefs chairman were black.
