It’s so obvious that it’s really funny. Because he is afraid of being fired, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, the new Mark Milley in every way, greeted Pete Hegseth, our new Secretary of Defense, on the steps of the Pentagon, and escorted him in. You could smell the desperation through the screen. Sad, really.

Newly confirmed (Huzzah!) Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth showed up for his first full day of work at the Pentagon and who should be waiting to show him around. No one but a full Four Star Brown-nosing General, fearful of losing his super powerful position. Yes, a Flag Officer deigned to greet a Field Grade Officer. Isn’t that what Generals, the Perfumed Princes of Pentagon, have Command Sergeant Majors for? C.Q. Brown went himself:

Mr. Hegseth was greeted at the Pentagon’s River Entrance at about 9 a.m. on Monday by Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Mr. Hegseth has suggested that General Brown, a four-star fighter pilot with decades of military experience, should be fired. But when asked if he would do that, Mr. Hegseth patted General Brown on the shoulder. “We’re in capable hands,” he said.

“Our job is lethality and readiness and for fighting,” said Mr. Hegseth who has vowed to bring a “warrior ethos” to the U.S. military but has yet to provide details. “We’re going to hold people accountable.”

I don’t need details on lethality, readiness or warrior ethos. However, our warfighters achieve room temperature for our enemies is groovy with me.

The pat on Brown’s shoulder was a great power move and reminded the General who is in charge.

But, why oh why would a Four Star Clot-head be afraid? Two words – General Milley. Milley really screwed it up for everyone. He was a casting director’s idea of someone who failed up and was a politician unconcerned with his soldier’s well-being. Military members were fodder for the war machine.

HOW WE GOT HERE

Back in June of 2020, Trump named Brown to become the first African American Chief of the Air Force. Biden then named Brown to replace Milley as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Before he was elevated to Chief of the Air Force, he talked about his feeling during George Floyd. This is one seething man:

In case you don’t want to waste five minutes on the video, here is the take from Stars and Stripes:

The general nominated to become the Air Force’s first African American chief of staff weighed in on the racial unrest roiling the country in a poignant video describing his personal and professional experiences navigating the “two worlds” of black and white lives. “As the commander of Pacific Air Forces, a senior leader in our Air Force and an African American, many of you may be wondering what I’m thinking about current events surrounding the tragic death of George Floyd,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. said in the opening moments of the 5-minute video posted to Facebook on Friday. “I’m thinking about living in two worlds, each with their own perspective and views,” he said of the divide many African Americans feel during lives and careers spent encountering — and often accommodating — the worldview of white America
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Brown — in a speech that at times seemed to barely contain his rage — said he was filled with emotion “not just for George Floyd, but for the many African Americans who have suffered the same fate as George Floyd.” He noted that the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution “that I’ve sworn my adult life to support and defend” have not always delivered “liberty and equality” to all.

Then Brown signed a memo with recruiting goals:

Two years later, on Aug. 9, 2022, Brown co-signed a memo that set goals for recruiting officers in the Air Force and the Space Force broken down by race, ethnicity and gender.

While it said the goals were not intended to undermine the merit-based process for recruiting or promotions, Republicans denounced the memo, arguing it imposed racial quotas on the military and called for reducing the number of white officers in the Air Force.

During Brown’s confirmation hearing to be chairman in 2023, Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., pressed him about the memo, asking, “Do we have too many white officers in the Air Force?” Schmitt denounced what he called “race-based politics being injected into our military.”

“Somehow, some way, we ended up in a place where a general in the Air Force is advocating for racial quotas, whether it be by applicants or the number of officers or maybe the total unit, and I just think that’s wrong,” Schmitt said. “I just don’t know how we can continue to have leadership that advocates for this divisive policy.”

Trump met Brown at the Army-Navy game after the 2024 election and the two got on well. The General is known as a soft spoken leader and maybe he was just spouting the current thinking, but that’s not right. I don’t want my family members relying on that kind of “leadership”. It is my belief that Brown needs to get gone. Many others with military experience feel the same:

Buzz Patterson:

.@PeteHegseth needs to fire DEI king, current Chairman, Joint Chiefs, General C.Q. Brown. He has destroyed the war fighting ethic in the Air Force at the behest of social engineering experimentation. He has polluted our Academy and training programs. He’s built his career on…

— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) January 27, 2025

And Kurt Schlichter:

Proposed Revised @PeteHegseth To-Do List:

1. Fire the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Replace him with a killer. You can’t change an org if you don’t change its head.

2. Instruct that “climate change” shall never again be labeled a strategic threat; our threat is enemy nations…

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) January 27, 2025

Tread carefully, SecDef Hegseth (nice ring) and watch for snakes and vipers in the Pentagon.

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