President Donald Trump has dismissed Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. from his role as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, removing the first Black leader in that position since Colin Powell. The ...

Brown was the second Black general to serve as Joint Chiefs chairman, following the now late Gen. Colin Powell's term from 1989 to 1993. He served in the position for 16 months before Trump's ...

In this Sept. 25, 1991, file photo, Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gestures on Capitol Hill in Washington, at a House Armed Services subcommittee.

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. CQ Brown, Jr. plans to remain in his role, despite Trump's past threats to fire him.

Powell, who as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff oversawthe U.S. military during the Gulf War, said Iraq had not lived upto the obligations of the 1991 truce, which called for Baghdad ...

Air Force Gen. Dan Caine has been sworn in as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff after a flurry of paperwork was finished to allow him to fill the job nearly two months after President Donald ...

President Trump has fired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer as part of a campaign to rid the military of leaders ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected ...

President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Trump abruptly fired Gen. CQ Brown Jr., a history-making fighter pilot and respected officer, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday, sidelining a history-making fighter pilot and respected ...