President Donald Trump announced on Friday the replacement of the Chief of the General Staff of the United States, the highest rank of the country’s armed forces.
General Charles Brown, who was appointed by the former Democratic President Joe Biden in 2023 and became the first Afro -American to occupy that key position of the Pentagon, will be replaced by Dan Caine, said the president in his Social Truth network.
“It is an honor to announce that I am nominating the Lieutenant General of the Air Force Dan ‘Razin’ Caine to be the next head of the Joint Chiefs, said the Republican leader.
“Caine is an consummated pilot, national security expert, successful entrepreneur and a ‘war combat’ with an important interagential experience and special operations,” Trump wrote.
A Biography of Caine on the US Air Force website says it served in positions such as the Associate Director for Military Affairs in the CIA, as well as in several operational functions, including combat maneuvers as a pilot of an F-16.
Trump thanked Brown for “his more than 40 years of service” to the country.
The outgoing general was the second black officer who held the position of Chief of the Joint General Staff, after Colin Powell from 1989 to 1993.
He was appointed officer in 1984 and is also an experienced pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours, 130 of them in combat.
