President Trump fired Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, Jr. and other top military leaders on Friday. The big picture: The terminations, also reaching Adm. Lisa Franchetti and ...

Gen. C.Q. Brown, the nation's top general, and Adm. Lisa Franchetti, are both on a list of generals and admirals who may be fired or removed from their jobs by Hegseth, ...

In March 2020, President Donald Trump nominated Gen. Charles Q. Brown to be chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force. After Brown, a San Antonio native, was unanimously confirmed by the U.S Senate ...

Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff watch as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025.

The highest-ranking military officer in the country, the chairman has no direct command authority. His role is as a ...

The dismissal of Gen. Charles Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was startling, if not unexpected, at the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term. Trump had appointed ...

Charles Q. Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and nominated in Brown’s place a retired officer, Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, who possesses few of the qualifications detailed in U.S. law ...

Donald Trump fired US Air Force General Charles Q. Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Friday evening. The president put out a statement on his social media platform saying he was ...

after firing Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. from the job Friday night. While Trump praised Caine as a "national security expert" and "warfighter," he would be an unusual choice for the country's ...

With the dramatic firing of two members of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff — the chairman, Air Force Gen. Charles Brown, and the chief of naval operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti — President ...