New CJCS Confirmed
Lieutenant General Dan Caine, USAF (Ret)
Senate confirms Dan Caine to lead Joint Chiefs in late-night vote
by Ellen Mitchell
The Senate early Friday morning voted to confirm President Trump’s choice to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine.
The 60 to 25 vote came after Democrats, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), blocked a quick passage of Caine’s nomination to protest Trump’s Feb. 21 firing of the previous top military commander, Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. The senators, who are poised to leave for a two-week recess, argued Brown’s removal was unjustified.
But despite the unexplained firing of Brown, Caine had bipartisan support following a relatively quiet confirmation hearing that had no major objections to him becoming the U.S. military’s top uniformed official.
From his bio:
Lt. Gen. Caine was commissioned in 1990 through the ROTC program at the Virginia Military Institute, and he has an Master of Arts in Air Warfare from the American Military University. He has completed a range of national security and leadership courses, including Harvard Kennedy School’s course for Senior Executives in National and International Security, and the Syracuse University Maxwell School’s Program on National Security. As a Command Pilot, he has logged more than 2,800 hours in the F-16, including more than 150 combat hours. From 2009-2016, Lt. Gen. Caine was a part-time member of the National Guard and a serial entrepreneur and investor.
Among is decorations is an Air Medal with a bronze oak leaf cluster, representing a second award. His Tango Alpha Hotel name is, “Q.” Unlike the previous gentleman in this post.
Category: Big Pentagon
Plus, another “woke” clod gets fired… Commander of base in Greenland gets canned for openly not supporting VP and policy:
https://twitchy.com/grateful-calvin/2025/04/11/greenland-commander-relieved-after-publicly-undermining-jd-vance-visit-n2411237
https://www.yahoo.com/news/space-commander-fired-email-rejecting-111301995.html
I wonder if one of her subordinate commanders had written an email saying that they didn’t agree with her policies would have gotten a free pass?
Damn! You’re at Greenland (Thule?).
You’re already at near bottom.
Where do you go (down) from there?
Ft Wainwright…
“The Institute will be heard from today” (IYKYK) Nice to see an Aerial Artillery Platform Driver make good.
Good luck, Mon General’…you’re gonna need it to undo what has been done.
“His Tango Alpha Hotel name is ‘Q’.”
Shack!
And to quote KoB, “IYKYK”.
Please explain cuz im lost in da fuckin sauce over here.
Previous CJCS was DEI hire Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown. In my Navy flyer mind a “CQ” is a grade of “Conditionally Qualified” on an annual NATOPS flight qual. Means you need some work on knowledge and/or procedures. The grade to get is “Q” for Qualified.
Charge of Quarters, man!
“His Tango Alpha Hotel name is ‘Q’.” That’s AW1Ed making an inside joke referring to Naval Aviation parlance regarding our NATOPS annual flight qualification check-rides, where the evaluee can be found to be Qualified (Q), Conditionally Qualified (CQ), or Unqualified (U) in the Type/Model/Series aircraft to which assigned. It would be a very bad thing to ever be found to be CQ or U during a NATOPS check-ride in a Fleet squadron. VERY BAD.
The previous CJCS was General “CQ” Brown USAF. F-16 pilot who claims that he’s got some combat time in his log book, but he has no combat awards, e.g., no Air Medal, so that tells me that he wasn’t actually ever anywhere where he would have been out dropping ordnance where the SAMs, MANPADs, and AAA were. So the inside joke, at least amongst Navy/Marine Corps Aviators and Aircrew, was that General Brown was at best CQ’d to be in the CJCS billet. After all of the combat that our USAF brethren have been involved in since 2001, how does an F-16 pilot get promoted all the way to four-star rank without actually having ever flown in harm’s way?
LtGen Caine, on the other hand, has actually flown in combat, and he has a couple of Air Medals to prove it. Therefore, he gets a “Q”.
Much better than my explanation, thanks, Mick.
No worries!
Those of us in the Brotherhood of the Wings of Gold have to stick together!
Outstanding: as a crayon eating, mouthbreathing groundside Marine….thats about as simple as you could make it for me. appreciate it!
Not just Air Medals, but a friggin’ DFC!!