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When it comes to transferring command as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), the military is a bailment. It is something with which the CJCS is entrusted for a four-year term in office, either to maintain as is or to improve upon before transferring it on to a successor. A transfer of this…

General Mark Milley to hand over post as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown, Jr.

Former US President Donald Trump and Gen. Mark Milley had a well-documented tense relationship. Even as the two have since parted ways, Trump has proven that... 06.12.2021, Sputnik International

Getty Images By Jeremy Herb, CNN In December 2018, then-President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would nominate Gen. Mark Milley as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Milley was not the consensus pick, and then-Defense Secretary James Mattis objected to his selection. But Trump wanted the square jawed, barrel-chested general whom he saw as straight from central casting as his top military officer. Nearly three years later, Milley has transformed from Trump’s hand-picked general...

How Mark Milley found himself caught up in Trumps political wars CNN 1 hr ago By Jeremy Herb, CNN © Drew Angerer/Getty Images Mark Milley testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing concerning the Department of Defense budget in the Hart Senate Office Building on March 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. In December 2018, then-President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he would nominate Gen. Mark Milley as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Milley was not th...