总统乔·拜登白宫周三表示，计划提名现任空军参谋长“CQ”布朗将军担任下一任参谋长联席会议主席，将这位四星上将提升为总统的高级军事顾问。
白宫表示，拜登将在周四的玫瑰园仪式上宣布他提名布朗的意向。
如果参议院批准，61岁的查尔斯·昆顿·布朗将接替马克·米利担任主席，并将成为继陆军上将科林·鲍威尔之后第二位黑人参谋长联席会议主席。此外，历史上第一次，五角大楼的两位最高领导人，现任国防部长劳埃德·奥斯汀和参谋长联席会议主席，将是黑人。
布朗是一名空军F-16战斗机飞行员，1984年完成工程学士学位后成为一名军官，2009年晋升为将军。从2015年开始，他在中东担任高级领导职务，并在2018年担任太平洋空军的指挥官，这是美国在印度太平洋上空的存在。
在2020年被前总统唐纳德·特朗普提名后，参议院以98比0确认布朗为空军参谋长。他现在被提名领导军队的服务主管，因为Milley的任期将于9月结束。众所周知，米莉与选择他担任主席的特朗普关系紧张。
作为拜登的高级军装顾问，布朗将被要求应对日益增长的中国军事存在，他曾在印度太平洋领导美国空军。
曾与布朗共事的前国会女议员兼空军部长希瑟·威尔逊告诉美国广播公司，他在该地区的经历使他非常适合这个职位。
“现在没有比中国更重要的对手或潜在对手，”她说。“他有这方面的经验。我认为，他不仅了解了太平洋的战略格局，还开始与我们的盟友建立关系。美国的优势之一是我们有盟友。中国一般不会。他们的邻居害怕他们。”
威尔逊说，布朗的个人性格将是一个有利因素。
“如果他的职位得到确认，将在加深我们与盟友的信任关系中发挥作用。如果说CQ·布朗证明了什么，那就是他是一个你可以信任的人。我认为，随着我们加深在太平洋地区的联盟，这将非常重要。
威尔逊说，这一威胁不同于美国领导人在中东认识到的威胁。
“我认为这是一个挑战，因为在过去的三十年里，我们确实一直在关注世界各地的恐怖主义威胁，而不一定是与一个近似对手的危机或冲突。那不一样。尤其是一个技术先进的对手。所以，他必须考虑战争的所有领域。当我们不必对ISIS和基地组织那样做的时候，”她说。
棕色，在一个视频消息2020年6月广泛传播，公开认为乔治·弗洛伊德在明尼阿波利斯被谋杀，作为一名高级军事领导人，他感到必须讨论这种不公正，因为他往往是第一个或唯一一个处于他职位的黑人。他说，他的儿子问他，空军将如何回应弗洛伊德的死亡，他知道他需要说出来。
他说:“我在想，我不仅对乔治·弗洛伊德，而且对许多遭受与乔治·弗洛伊德相同命运的非洲裔美国人充满了感情。”“我在思考一段种族问题的历史和我自己的经历，这段历史并不总是歌颂自由和平等。”
当威尔逊看到视频时，她说她“真的为他感到骄傲。他知道飞行员需要从他那里听到什么。作为一名领导人，他站在一个独特的位置上，站出来这样说。我想，我真的为他感到骄傲。”
威尔逊指出，1976年军事院校首次接纳女性，这是布朗提名所代表的一种突破。
“我认为这个国家已经从中受益。我们有一个更强大的国防，因为你们利用了每个人带来的礼物，”她说。
去年二月加入ABC的“GMA3”，布朗告诉ABC新闻，“你只能渴望成为你能看到的人。希望通过我在这个位置上，我将激励许多年轻人打开大门，不仅是在军队，而是在整个国家，处于一个很好的位置上，就像这样。”
威尔逊说，布朗的“风格与众不同”。“但没关系……不同的国防部长和不同的总统需要不同的东西。”
“CQ做得很好的一件事就是倾听，在这个镇上，想说的人比想听的人多得多，他们倾听、理解并综合问题。他提出了很好的问题，然后能够明确什么是重大问题。”
Biden to pick history-making general as next head of Joint Chiefs
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Gen. "CQ" Brown, the current Air Force chief of staff, to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the White House said Wednesday, elevating the four-star general to be the senior military adviser to the president.
Biden will announce his intent to nominate Brown in a Rose Garden ceremony on Thursday, the White House said.
At 61, Charles Quinton Brown Jr. would succeed Gen. Mark Milley as chairman if the Senate confirms him, and would be the second Black Joint Chiefs chairman after Army Gen. Colin Powell. Also, for the first time in history, the Pentagon's top two leaders, the current secretary of defense, Lloyd Austin, and the Joint Chiefs chairman, would be Black men.
An Air Force F-16 fighter pilot who became an officer after completing his undergraduate degree in engineering in 1984, Brown rose through the ranks to become a general in 2009. He held senior leadership roles in the Middle East beginning in 2015, and in 2018 took command of Pacific Air Forces, America's presence in the skies of the Indo-Pacific.
After being nominated by former President Donald Trump in 2020, the Senate confirmed Brown 98-0 to be chief of staff of the Air Force. His nomination now to lead the military's service chiefs comes as Milley's tenure comes to a mandated end in September. Milley came to have a notoriously strained relationship with Trump, who had chosen him to be chairman.
As Biden's senior adviser in uniform, Brown would be called to contend with a growing Chinese military presence where he once led American airmen, the Indo-Pacific.
Heather Wilson, a former congresswoman and secretary of the Air Force who served with Brown, told ABC News his experience in the region makes him a good fit for the moment.
"There is no more important adversary or potential adversary now than China," she said. "And he has that experience. I think even more than just understanding the strategic landscape of the Pacific, he has started to build relationships with our allies. And one of the things that America has that's an advantage is that we have allies. China generally does not. Their neighbors are afraid of them."
Brown's personal character would be a plus, Wilson said.
"This position, if he's confirmed, has a role in relationships with our allies in deepening those partnerships of trust. And if there's one thing CQ Brown has demonstrated it's that he's a man that you can trust. And I think that will be very important as we deepen our alliances in the Pacific," she said.
The threat is different from the one U.S. leaders have come to know in the Middle East, according to Wilson.
"I think that's a challenge because for the last thirty years, we have really been focusing on terrorist threats all around the world and not necessarily crisis or conflict with a near-peer adversary. That's different. Particularly, a technologically advanced near-peer adversary. So, he has to think about warfare in all of its domains. When we have not had to do that against ISIS and Al Qaeda," she said.
Brown, in a video message spread widely in June 2020, reckoned publicly with the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, an injustice he felt compelled to discuss as a senior military leader who was often the first or the only Black man in his position. He said his son asked him how the Air Force would respond to Floyd's killing, and he knew he needed to speak out.
"I'm thinking about how full I am with emotion not just for George Floyd, but the many African Americans that have suffered the same fate as George Floyd," he said. "I'm thinking about a history of racial issues and my own experiences that didn't always sing of liberty and equality."
When Wilson saw the video, she said she "was really proud of him. He had a sense of what airmen needed to hear from him. And as a leader, he was in a unique position to stand up and say so. And – I think – I was really proud of him."
Wilson pointed to the admission of women to service academies for the first time in 1976 as the sort of breakthrough Brown's nomination represents.
"I think this country has benefited from that. We have a stronger national defense because you use the gifts that everyone brings to the table," she said.
Joining ABC's "GMA3" last February, Brown told ABC News, "You can only aspire to be what you can see. And hopefully by me being in this position, I'll inspire many young people to open doors for not just in the military, but just really across the country, to be in a great position to -- just like this."
Brown's "style is different," Wilson said. "But that's okay…Different secretaries of defense and different presidents need different things."
"One of the things that CQ does well is listen, and this is in a town where there's a lot more people who want to talk than listen and who listens and understands and synthesizes problems. He asks good questions and then is able to crystallize what the big issues are."
