Caine is a career fighter jet pilot who defended Washington, D.C., during the 9/11 attacks and been adored by Trump since ...

President Trump ousted Air Force Gen. CQ Brown Jr., a President Biden appointee, who served as the U.S. chairman of the Joint ...

Caine, a three-star general whom Trump has praised since at least 2019, helped lead an operation in Iraq against the Islamic ...

Pete Hegseth, secretary of defense and a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has announced the intention of President Donald Trump to ...

Peter Schoomaker, for example, was recalled to become Army chief of staff in 2003 ... Guard to the senior levels of Joint Special Operations Command. Caine joined a venture capital firm called ...

Caine is a three-star general. Traditionally, four-star generals are nominated to chair the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Dan “Razin” Caine to be the next chairman ... successor for the critical position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.” Congressional Democratic leaders called out the firings as ...

Caine has not served in any of the roles — Joint Chiefs vice chairman, chief of staff for one of the branches of the armed service, or head of a combatant command — that nominees are legally ...