CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... overwhelmingly confirmed as chief of the Air Force with a vote of 98-0 in the Senate. Not long afterward, his name began to surface as the likely ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brutally shut down a reporter’s question about an “underqualified” replacement for the ousted chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... when he replaced Gen. Mark Milley ...

Caine, a three-star general whom Trump has praised since at least 2019, helped lead an operation in Iraq against the Islamic State during Trump’s first term.

President Donald Trump on Friday fired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr., replacing the four-star fighter pilot with John D. Caine, a retired three-star Air Force general.

The ouster of Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, only the second Black general to serve as Joint Chiefs chairman, is sure to send shock ...