For General Dan Caine, the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, there was a kind of return home on Thursday.
An F-16 pilot with 150 combat flights, General Caine has also served in various very secret intelligence and special operational assignments, some in the United States and some overseas.
So it was no surprise that he chose a friendly audience – the vast annual special operating conference or sof -week – to make his first public comments as chairman.
“I am most at home with this tribe,” said General Caine hundreds of American and related military and civilian staff, as well as contractors in the industry, who gave him a standing ovation at the beginning and end of his 15 -minute comments.
General Caine – Who was sworn in last month After President Trump FIRED GEN. Charles Q. Brown Jr.A four-star hunter pilot known as CQ played it safely in his prepared comments. He emphasized the willingness to combat, worked closely with allies and armed our troops with the most advanced weapons and equipment.
The general takes the leadership of the US Army at a time when the world is in ‘a dynamic and dangerous place’, he said. And his role, he added, will be to help us to combine the combat possibilities of us and allied forces to create ‘dilemmas’ for ‘the Chinese and others’.
General Caine did not mention the US Air War in Yemen, whether the Pentagon Ukraine would offer extra help than what President Joseph R. Biden Jr. Approved or other specific challenges that the United States are confronted with. He played it safely. He didn’t ask any questions
He has indeed held a low profile since he takes on the best job in the army.
Last month, General Caine paid an unannounced visit To the southwestern border to look first and foremost at the growing role of the army in helping stem migrant transition, a top priority for Mr. Trump.
That General Caine made his first official trip to the border as chairman underlines the importance of the mission to the White House, and the Pentagon, even while the crossings fell quickly during the Trump government.
Be chosen by Mr. Trump caught him overwhelmed. General Caine was retired at the end of December after completing the last job in his military career – as the contact person of the Pentagon on the CIA – and joined Shield Capital, a company in Burlingame, California, specialized in cyber security and artificial intelligence.
But then came the call from the White House, the confirmation process of the Senate, his curses on April 14, and now his grasp with countless challenges that the world is winding to him.
“I know, you know, still try to find my way in the Pentagon and learn my work,” he told the audience.
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