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After being sworn in last Friday, Air Force General Charles Quinton Brown, Jr. assumed his role as Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff on Oct. 1. He follows retiring General Mark A. Milley who served as the 20th Joint Chiefs of Staff chair. The chairman is the highest ranking and most senior military officer in the United States Armed Forces. He is the principal military advisor to the president, the National Security Council, the Homeland Security Council, and the Secretary of Defense. | By Conway ...

The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Gen. CQ Brown as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, putting him in place to succeed Gen. Mark Milley when he retires at the end of the month.

The Air Force fighter pilot tapped to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got his call sign by ejecting from a burning F-16 fighter jet high above the Florida Everglades and falling into the watery sludge below. It was January 1991, and then-Capt. CQ Brown Jr. had just enough time in his parachute above alligator-full wetlands. He landed in the muck, which coated his body. Thats how the man nominated to be the country’s next top military officer got his call sign: “Swamp Thing....

President Joe Biden on Thursday will nominate four-star Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who flew fighter jets as an Air Force captain, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

CQ Brown will be nominated by President Joe Biden as the country's next top military officer.

President Joe Biden spoke about the achievements of Air Force Gen. Charles C. Brown, his choice to serve as chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, including the time Brown had to bail out of an F-16.