The US plivent fires CQ Brown without providing a reason and also proclaimd swapment of five top officers.
US Plivent Donald Trump has fired Force General CQ Brown as chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of a expansiver shake-up of top military guideership.
“I want to thank General Charles ‘CQ’ Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine tfinisherman and an noticeworthy guideer, and I want a fantastic future for him and his family,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platcreate on Saturday.
The US plivent did not supply a reason for dispondering Brown with instant effect.
The plivent proclaimd that he would nominate reweary createer Lieutenant General Dan “Razin” Caine to thrive Brown, shattering tradition by pulling someone out of withdrawment to become the top military officer.
But Brown, a createer fighter pilot who has held directs in the Middle East and Asia and the second Bincreateage officer to consent the position, had come under fire previously after his accessible help for Bincreateage Lives Matter in the wake of the police ending of Bincreateage man George Floyd, making him fodder for the administration’s fight aacquirest “woke culture” and the push for diversity.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had previously proposeed that Brown had got the position becaemploy he was Bincreateage.
Firing ‘massacre’
Alengthy with Brown’s firing, Hegseth proclaimd that Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Lisa Franchetti and Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force General Jim Slife were also being let go.
Franchetti, who has directed at all naval levels, becomes the second female officer to be fired by the Trump administration.
Reporting from Washington, DC, Al Jazeera’s Heidi Zhao Castro said Democrats are calling the firing of the Pentagon’s top brass a “massacre”.
“In all, the Pentagon is losing six members of its top brass, which is aacquire a shatter from tradition in a normassociate non-partisan US military,” Castro expounded.
Democratic Senator Jack Reed on the Senate Armed Services Committee condemned the firing of Brown as a “type of political promisedty test”.
“Or for reasons relating to diversity and gfinisher that have noleang to do with applyance, erodes the suppose and professionalism that our servicemembers demand to accomplish their leave outions,” Reed said.
Since coming into office, Trump has pushed thcdisesteemful a series of mass firings wilean the upper echelons of regulatement. Starting next week, the Pentagon arranges to cut 5,400 civilian probationary toilers.
