U.S. Air Pressure Normal Charles Brown testifies throughout his affirmation listening to on July 11, 2023.
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President Trump has fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Employees, Air Pressure Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., and introduced he’ll nominate a retired three-star common to succeed him because the nation’s prime army officer.
Trump introduced Brown’s dismissal in a submit Friday on TruthSocial, through which he thanked Brown “for his over 40 years of service to our nation,” and referred to as him a “fantastic gentleman and an impressive chief.” Brown, a former fight pilot, rose to turn out to be the primary Black man to steer a department of the army as Air Pressure chief before he was nominated by former President Joe Biden as chairman of the Joint Chiefs in 2023.
Trump stated he could be nominating Air Pressure Lt. Gen. Dan Caine to succeed Brown.
“Normal Caine is an achieved pilot, nationwide safety knowledgeable, profitable entrepreneur, and a ‘warfighter’ with important interagency and particular operations expertise,” Trump wrote, including that Caine “was instrumental within the full annihilation of the ISIS caliphate.”
The announcement got here amid a broader shake-up underway on the Pentagon, a part of a dramatic try by the Trump administration to restructure the federal workforce and slash authorities spending. The Pentagon introduced Friday that it plans to fireplace roughly 5,400 probationary employees starting subsequent week. The Pentagon has additionally proposed cutting 8% of its budget in every of the following 5 years — amounting to some $50 billion every year.
