Donald Trump has dismissed chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Cq Brown, part of his plan to free the army from so -called 'Geskee generals'.
Brown, a retired Air Force General appointed by Joe Biden, was a yacht pilot and part of a campaign to free the army of leaders who support diversity and fairness in the ranks.
After his election victory, it was rumor that Trump wanted To create a 'Warrior Board' from retired ex-soldier staff to invalidate 'woke up Generals' considered unsuitable for leadership.
Some believed that a target of that initiative would be brown, a widely respected former hunting pilot and military commander who is politics from the neighborhood.
The four-star general, which is black, gave a video message about discrimination in the ranks in the days after the murder of George Floyd May 2020 by a police officer in Minneapolis, and has been a voice for diversity in the US Army.
Trump announced Brown's departure – on apparently friendly conditions, in his words – in a post to social media on Friday evening.
'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. '
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.
Donald Trump has fired chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Cq Brown, part of his plan to free the army from so -called 'Woke Generals
After his election victory, it was rumor that Trump wanted to create a 'Warrior Board' from retired ex-military staff to wake 'generals', if unsuitable for leadership was deemed for leadership
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.
Brown had regularly met with Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth, who took over the task of the Top Pentagon just four weeks ago.
VICE PEISDENT JD VANCE, voted as senator in 2023 against confirming Brown to become the best American military officer, and has been a critic of the observed resistance to Trump's orders within the Pentagon.
“If the people in your own government do not obey you, you have to lose them and replace them with people who respond to what the president is trying to do,” Vance said in an interview with Tucker Carlson before the elections.
Trump says he Air Force Lt. Gene. Then 'Razin' Caine nominates as the next chairman.
“General Caine is an accomplished pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur and a 'warfighter' with considerable interagency and special operational experience,” Trump said in the same post on social media.
Trump praised Caine to help orchestrate 'the complete destruction of the ISIS -Kaliphate' during Trump's first term.
He then aimed his anger at his predecessor and said Caine should have been given the job under the last presidency.
Trump says he Air Force Lt. Gene. Then 'Razin' Caine nominates to be the next chairman
Trump wrote: 'Despite the fact that he was highly qualified and respected to serve during the previous administration to the joint staff chefs, General Caine was passed on for promotion by Sleepy Joe Biden. But no more! '
He said Caine will collaborate with Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth and the army on the 'Peace through strength' agenda of Trump.
Trump has also told Hegseeth to look for applicants for five 'high level' positions in the cabinet.
Current and former American officials say that Trump will give priority to loyalty in his second term and will eradicate military officers and career officers he regards as unfaithfulness.
As a commander -in -chief, Trump has the power to dismiss every officer at first.
Renend for the office, he was asked by Fox News in June if he would dismiss generals who woke up as 'woke up'.
“I would fire them. You can't (a) wake up militarily, “said Trump.
During the campaign, Trump promised to restore the name of a southern general in a large American military base, which made a change after Floyd's murder.
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
Brown had gathered regularly with Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth, who took the top Pentagon lane only four weeks ago
Trump's strongest anti-WAK messages during the campaign focused on transgender troops.
Trump has previously forbidden transgender -service members and placed a campaign advertisement, opens a new tab that she is depicted as weak, with the vow that “we won't have a wake -up army!”
Kori Schake from the conservative American Enterprise Institute warned that a second Trump period could see at a high level while pushing ahead with controversial policy.
“I think there will be a huge chaos premium in a second Trump period, both because of the policy he will try to implement as the people he will prepare to make them in terms of agreements,” she said.
An American military civil servant trivialized such concerns and said, on condition of anonymity that creating chaos within the command structure of the US Army would create political recoil and be unnecessary for Trump to achieve his goals.
“What these boys will discover is that military officers are generally focused on war fights and not on politics,” said the military officer. I feel that they will be satisfied with that – or at least they should be. '
