This comes as the Trump Administration seeks to rid the military of leaders who support diversity and equity in ranks.

Last week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired the nation’s most senior military officer, Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown, a Black officer whom Hegseth had criticized in a book for supporting diversity ...

In his 2024 book “The War on Warriors,” Mr. Hegseth questioned whether General Brown was selected as the Joint Chiefs chairman because he was Black ... not resign. On Friday, he was ...

President Donald Trump announced he had fired Gen. C.Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and planned to ...

NBC News reported: President Donald Trump on Friday terminated Joint Chiefs ... Brown, a fighter pilot, was the second Black person to serve as Joint Chiefs chairman after Army Gen.

Trump announced Brown's dismissal in a post Friday ... Black man to lead a branch of the military as Air Force chief before he was nominated by former President Joe Biden as chairman of the Joint ...

CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making ... The ouster of Brown, only the second Black general to serve as chairman, is sure to send shock ...