Donald Trump suddenly fired Air Force General CQ Brown Jr. as co-headed chairman on Friday, and on the sidelines of history-making black fighter pilots and respected officers to support diversity and equity leadership Ranked as part of a campaign to cleanse people.
The second black general exile, who chairs the co-chief, was outlined during a podcast interview by Defense Secretary Pete Hegses, who outlined plans to drive diversity, equity and inclusive efforts to the US military. I’ll come in three months.
“First of all, you have to fire the co-chief’s chairman,” Hegses said in an interview with Shawn Ryan Shaw in November. “The general, the general, the admiral or whatever that was involved, it had to do with the Day Week shit having to go.”
Hegses had met Brown regularly since the former Fox News host took over the top job at the Pentagon last month, but openly questioned whether Brown was nominated for the chair because he was black. I was doing it. “Was it because of his skin color? Or his skill? We never know, but it’s always doubtful. But he made the race card one of his biggest calling cards. , that’s not that important,” Hegses wrote in one of his books.
Brown was praised, including breaking the racial barriers in the military and breaking his “fighter” qualifications. When he was sworn in as Secretary of the Air Force in 2020, during the first Trump administration, Brown recognized previous US military service members who were denied progress because of their race, Time reported. “Their trial and hardship of breaking barriers makes me able to speak to you today as the Air Force Secretary,” Brown said.
In 2020, Trump himself celebrated Brown’s confirmation on social media “as America’s first African-American military service officer,” pointing to how he appointed him to the role. Brown’s experience as a former commander of the Pacific Air Force also meant he was “very qualified to stop China and reassure Indo-Pacific allies,” and time noted that year. .
“Under President Trump, we are introducing new leadership that will focus our troops on the core mission of deterrence, fight and victory,” Heggs said in a statement after Brown’s shooting that he “has thoughtful advisor.” “It’s called.”
In a post on his social media platform Friday evening, Trump said that retired military leader Trump was “taken over for promotion by sleepy Joe Biden.” -It has been announced that it will be replaced with “Razine” Kane.
Trump repeatedly said that Kane was impressed with him during his first administration by assuring him that the Islamic State could be defeated very rapidly.
“The so-called military ‘geniuses’ said it would take years to defeat ISIS. Meanwhile, General Cain said it could be done quickly and he delivered,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday.
At the 2019 CPAC, Trump previously recounted a conversation that reminded him of asking Kane how quickly the Islamic State would be defeated, claiming that Kane had told him. The fact-checker said at the time they “didn’t add up.”
Cain, a white man, previously served as the Central Intelligence Agency’s associate director of military affairs and played a direct role in Washington, D.C. air defense during the September 11 attack. Caine recently became a venture partner at venture capital firm Shield Capital, and promoted her entrepreneurial experience “co-founding and successfully exiting multiple aerospace, defense and healthcare companies.”
Trump’s announcement caused a period of radical upheaval at the Pentagon. This already includes civilian layoffs, dramatic overhauls of the budget and changes in the deployment of US military under Trump’s new US-first foreign policy.
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Trump also wrote that he will soon trade five other high-level positions in unprecedented reforms of US military leadership.
In a statement shortly after Trump’s Truth Social Post, Hegses appears to be about to be satisfied, saying that Trump “requests the appointment of the position of Naval Operations Director and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force.” We have revealed what the five positions that appear in the General Francetti and General James Slife currently hold these positions.
“We are also requesting the appointment of general judges for the Army, Navy and Air Force,” added Heggs.
Caine’s military service includes combat roles in Iraq, special operations posts, and positions within some of the Pentagon’s most categorized special access programs. However, important legal allocations are not critical allocations identified as prerequisites for work, but are exempt from the president from waiving them as necessary during periods of national interest.
The Goldwater Nichols Act of 1986 states that in order to qualify, Chair must have previously served as vice-chairman and combatant or service chief, but that “the president must have acted as such. If we deem it necessary, the requirement may be exempt from the national interest.”
Associated Press and Reuters contributed the report
