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Chuck Schumer filed cloture on the nominations of three top military officers on Wednesday, circumventing a hold on such nominations by Tommy Tuberville.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) worked around longtime holdout Sen. Tommy Tuberville by sending the confirmation vote on America's next top military officer to the Senate floor.
The Senate voted to confirm Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Wednesday.
The acting commandant of the Marine Corps on Monday ordered a two-day "safety stand down" for all aviation units this week as the search continued for an advanced F-35 Lightning II jet fighter that crashed near Charleston, S.C. on a training run.
Marine Corps Commandant Eric Smith on Monday issued a two-day aviation stand-down after an F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter jet went missing the day before.