The Air Force officer, if confirmed, would succeed Gen. Mark Milley.
for the position, currently serves as Air Force chief of staff, a post for which he was unanimously confirmed in August 2020. He will have to face another Senate confirmation hearing before he is able to assume his new role as the nation’s highest-ranking military officer.If confirmed, Brown would become the second Black Joint Chiefs chair in the nation’s history, following.
He would also lead the Pentagon alongside Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the first Black Pentagon chief, making it the first time in history that the top two jobs in the Defense Department would be held by African Americans.Brown, if confirmed, would also become the first Air Force officer to become Joint Chiefs chair since retired Gen. Richard Myers, who held the position until 2005.
The chair position typically rotates among the military branches. Since Myers, the job has been held by two Marine generals, two Army generals and one Navy admiral.Days before the Senate was set to vote on his confirmation to be Air Force chief of staff, Brown spoke out about his own experience navigating racial tensions in the military.
. “I can’t fix centuries of racism in our country, nor can I fix decades of discrimination,” he added, calling on viewers to let him know “how together we can make a difference.”Brown did not plan for a life in the Air Force, and when he was an ROTC student at Texas Tech University, he didn’t expect that one day he would be leading the branch.marking his transition into the Air Force chief of staff role.
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