Senator Jack Reed appears on "This Week," Feb. 23, 2025. It was the first time two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have had their roles terminated. In a social media post, Trump said he was nominating retired Lt. Gen. Dan "Razin" Caine to be chairman ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in an interview on Sunday that Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. was “not the right man for the moment” and praised President Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine.

Trump plans to nominate retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine as the nation’s next chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

"It's the beginning of a very, very serious degradation of the military and politicization of the military," he said.

No, President Donald Trump likely has little need for a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, given his penchant for ignoring unwelcome advice and preference for his own “commonsense” gut instincts, but the country probably does.

NPR's A Martinez asks Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, about the Pentagon shakeup that included the firing of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.

CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday ... to the survival of our democracy,” Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee ...

CQ Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday ... a political party is essential to the survival of our democracy,” Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement late Friday.