Dan Caine, President Donald Trump’s candidate to be the country’s highest-ranking military commander, acknowledged on Tuesday that” I’m an unorthodox candidate.”
However,” these are innovative days,” Caine said at his confirmation hearing for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He has not led a military tree or large department, and has never led a hero command.
After immediately removing General Charles Q Brown as the highest-ranking military commander about halfway through his term, Trump chose Caine, applaudingly citing his” Razin” call mark.
When asked if he’d ever worn a” Make America Great Repeatedly” scarf or any other political equipment, Caine responded,” No sir.” Trump has been cited as saying that during a meeting in 2018, Caine said, “I’ll shoot for you, sir,” in terms of “MAGA.”
According to the transcript of the comments,” I think the president really was talking about someone else,” Caine said.
Caine attempted to avoid getting in touch with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth while avoiding questions about pending inquiries and providing details of an upcoming attack on Houthis, Houthis, in and Yemen during an unregistered chat with another administration officials.
” We should generally keep the element of surprise” and “never set our warfighters in harm’s way,” Caine said. ” I have always provided the appropriate knowledge through the appropriate programs.”
Caine, a 56-year-old past F-16 aircraft, served on a special functions work force in Iraq and the Islamic State. He previously served as the detective agency’s contact between military leaders and the CIA’s associate director for defense matters.
According to his official history, he formerly served as the director of defense’s main team advisor and assistant for all programs that were subject to specific access controls, more commonly known as “black programs.”
Democratic , Mazie Hirono , of , Hawaii , said Caine don’t get sitting before them despite normally friendly questioning by lawmakers of both parties. She claimed that Trump poorly fired Brown because he desired “yes men and women with devotion to him rather than the British individuals.”
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