In an unprecedented movement, both General Charles “CQ” Brown JR, president of the Jefes of the Joint General Staff, and Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the main Admiral of the Navy, was fired from his positions by President Donald Trump, marking The first time two are twice. The members of the team leaders had been fired from their upper military roles.
As a retired military officer, Caine will return to active duty and will have to be confirmed by the Senate to assume the role of the president’s main military advisor and the main military official of the Nation.
Caine retired after turning 34 years in the Air Force, where he served as a pilot of the F-16, the Assistant \ General Commander in the Joint Special Operations Command and the Associate Director of Military Affairs of the Central Intelligence Agency for Affairs Military
“I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his more than 40 years of service to our country, even as our current president of the Joint General Staff,” Trump announced in his social account of Truth. “He is a good gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I want a great future for him and his family.”
Lieutenant General Dan Caine is seen in this photo of the United States Air Force.
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As president of the Joint personnel bosses, Brown became The first woman to serve as the main admiral of the Navy.
The president’s role is intended to be apolitical and, by design, the term of four years of the president overlaps the years of presidential elections, which means that someone who serves in the role could serve in two different presidential administrations.
Trump as president has the authority to eliminate generals and senior officers of their positions and reallocate them, but if they are forced to get out of paper, officers may not find another opening available to them.
“Today I feel honored to announce that I am nominating the Lieutenant General of the Air Force Dan ‘Razin’ Caine to be the next president of the Joint General Staff,” Trump wrote. “General Caine is a consummate pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur and a” warrior “with an important inter -institutional and special operations experience.”
“During my first term, Razin was instrumental in the complete annihilation of ISIS caliphate,” Trump said, repeating praise to the three -star general that he had placed since his first term after meeting with him during a tour of US military troops in Iraq.
“It was carried out at the time of record establishment, a matter of weeks,” Trump said. “Many called” military geniuses “said he would take years to defeat Isis. General Caine, on the other hand, said he could do quickly and he delivered.”
“Despite being highly qualified and respected to serve in the chiefs of joint staff during the previous administration, Sleepy Joe Biden transmitted to General Caine so that the drowns Joe Biden,” Trump said. “But not anymore with Secretary Pete Hegesh, General Caine and our Army will restore peace through force, will put the United States first and rebuilds our military.”
Defense officials told ABC News that Defense Secretary Pete Heghseth called Brown and Franchetti to advise them that they were being withdrawn from their positions. At that time, both Brown and Franchetti were traveling outside Washington, Brown had completed a tour of US military troops on the southern border with Mexico, and on their way to California to link with Franchetti, where both would participate in a conference.
Hegesh later said in a statement that he would request nominations to replace Franchetti; General James Slife, vice president of the Air Force Cabinet; and the judge generally advocates the army, the Navy and the Air Force.
Earlier this week, Brown and Franchetti appeared on a list of generals and admirals provided by the Trump administration to the Republicans of Congress that Hegseth was considering shooting or eliminating from their positions.
“General Caine embodies the spirit of the warrior and is exactly the leader we need to fulfill the moment. I hope to work with him,” Hegseth said in a statement issued after Trump’s announcement.
“The outgoing president, General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown, Jr., USAF, has served in a career that covers four decades of honorable service,” said Hegseth. ‘I have come to know him as a reflective advisor and greet him for his distinguished service to our country.
“Under President Trump, we are establishing a new leadership that will focus our military on their main mission to deter, fight and win wars,” he added.
In a statement provided to ABC News SLIFE, he said that “the president and the Secretary of Defense deserve to have generals in those who trust and the strength deserves to have generals who have credibility with our chosen and appointed officials.”
“While I am disappointed to leave in these circumstances, I do not want the result to be different,” said Slife. “I want the president, the secretary and the USAF aviators to the best, since they serve our nation in challenging times.”
The elimination of some of the highest military officers of the Nation caused criticism of a former member of the Joint Chiefs.
“Our army has accepted the principle of civil control of the military for 236 years. Which may seem like an arcane principle for most Americans, is essential for healthy civil relations that promote effective national security decision making,” removed the generation. George Casey, a former Army Cabinet Chief, told ABC News in a statement.
“The dismissal officers for following the directives of the previous civil leadership of the Department of Defense will undermine that principle and is completely unnecessary. Change the policy, not the people,” he added.
Senator Roger Wicker, president of the Senate Armed Services Committee, thanked Brown “for his decades of honorable service to our nation” and expressed his confidence that “Hegseth and President Trump will select a qualified and capable successor for the critical position for the critical position of the president of the Jefes of Staff Joint. “
Senator Jack Reed, the Classification Democrat in the Committee, said he was “worried about the nature of these layoffs” and said they seem to be part of a broader and more premeditated campaign of President Trump and Secretary Hegseth to purge the officers Talented by politically politically charged reasons, which would undermine the professionalism of our military and send a chilling message through the ranks. “
Brown was nominated to be the first Black Cabinet Chief of the Air Force by Trump during his first term, in early 2020.
However, he received HEGSETH’s criticism in the period prior to his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, as well as Trump after his 2024 electoral victory.
The names of Brown and Franchetti appeared on a list that circulated through Republican offices in the Congress of senior Pentagon officials that was said that Hegseth was considering having retired from their positions.
“First of all, you have to say goodbye to the president of the Joint Chiefs,” Hegseth said in an appearance in November at the “Shawn Ryan Show.”
“But any general who was involved, general, Admiral, whatever, was involved in any of the Dei who woke up, has to leave,” he continued. “Or war awaits you, and that’s it. That is the only test of fire that matters to us.”
“We will never know, but always doubts, which seems unfair to CQ,” he wrote in his book “War against warriors.” “But since he has made the race card one of his biggest call cards, he really doesn’t matter much.”
Hegseth also questioned Franchetti’s qualifications to be the main admiral of the Navy.
In the same book he wrote: “If naval operations suffer, we can at least keep our heads up
