The team in the Trump 47 White House has proven that it doesn’t believe in the concept of taking off early for the weekend, as evidenced by a steady stream of action from those quarters over the past month since Inauguration Day. They stayed true to form this week, as we shared earlier on Friday, with President Trump firing the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from the Biden administration, and nominating a new JCoS chair.
My colleague Bob Hoge wrote:
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Donald Trump made yet another high-profile personnel decision Friday, firing Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Air Force Gen. “CQ” Brown Jr.—a vocal advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), which Trump has promised to rid the government of—and is nominating Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine as his replacement.
But that wasn’t the end of the announcements from the Trump administration about changes on their way for several branches of the U.S. military.
Indeed, new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth released a statement later on Friday evening, giving details on planning for “new leadership,” while highlighting the commander in chief’s “core mission” objectives:
Under President Trump, we are putting in place new leadership that will focus our military on its core mission of deterring, fighting and winning wars.
He commented on both Gen. Brown’s departure from the JCoS post and Caine’s nomination to it:
The outgoing Chairman, Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown, Jr., USAF, has served with distinction in a career spanning four decades of honorable service. I have come to know him as a thoughtful adviser and salute him for his distinguished service to our country. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
