The president of USA, Joe Bidenwill announce on Thursday his intention to appoint as chief of the General Staff Charles Q Browncurrent General of the Air Force.
will replace the general Mark Milleywho has held the position since October 1, 2019, according to the official program published by the White House.
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If Brown’s nomination is confirmed by the Senate, he would be the second African-American to hold the highest-ranking military position in the world’s most powerful military, after Colin Powellin the 1990s.
The sixty-year-old would be under the orders of a defense minister who is also black: Lloyd Austin.
An experienced pilot with more than 3,000 flight hours, 130 of them in combat, he was commander of the US air forces in Middle East and in the Peaceful.
During the anti-racist demonstrations of “Black Lives Matter” (“Black lives matter”), in 2020, published a video in which he recounted the discrimination he suffered, including in the army.
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In the air forceI was the only African American in my squadron and, as a senior officer, the only African American in the piece”. She also said that she hadworked twice more” for “demonstrate that their expectations and perceptions of African Americans were unfounded”.
Source: Elcomercio
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