Biden to Name Air Force Chief to Top Military Post, Officials Say

[Jessica-stormlover]

Biden to Name Air Force Chief to Top Military Post, Officials Say​

Source: New York Times

The appointment of Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. would mean that the top two Pentagon leadership positions would be inhabited by Black men for the first time in American history.

President Biden is expected to announce soon that he has chosen Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the Air Force chief of staff, to become the country’s most senior military officer, according to two U.S. officials.

If he is formally nominated and approved by the Senate, General Brown will succeed Gen. Mark A. Milley, whose term as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff expires at the end of September.

General Brown would be only the second Black man to become chairman, following Colin L. Powell, who served in that position during the presidencies of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

General Brown’s appointment and confirmation would also mean that along with Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the top two Pentagon leadership positions would be inhabited by African American men for the first time in American history. It would be a singular step for minorities in a military whose leadership has long been dominated by white men.

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This is really cool! two men that earned it and worked hard. God bless them!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

How long did it take to find the absolutely most unqualified?

 

[Meister]

Biden to Name Air Force Chief to Top Military Post, Officials Say​

This is really cool! two men that earned it and worked hard. God bless them!

I do hope they are the finest, he hasn't a good track record so far with his secular politics.

 

[1srelluc]

What, no cross-dressing general?

 

[Esdraelon]

What, no cross-dressing general?

As far as we KNOW...

 

[badger2]

Biden to Name Air Force Chief to Top Military Post, Officials Say​

This is really cool! two men that earned it and worked hard. God bless them!

Biden does no naming of anything. Meritocracy is alien across the Biden genome. CIA-Pentagon is a better bet.

 

[TNHarley]

Good for them! Hopefully they actually deserve it, and this isnt more of his political theater for the rubes.