{"id":83694,"date":"2023-07-11T18:30:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/07\/11\/cq-brown-decries-hold-on-nominations-in-hearing-to-head-joint-chiefs\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:56:07","slug":"cq-brown-decries-hold-on-nominations-in-hearing-to-head-joint-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/07\/11\/cq-brown-decries-hold-on-nominations-in-hearing-to-head-joint-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"CQ Brown decries hold on nominations in hearing to head Joint Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/05\/25\/biden-picks-brown-to-be-joint-chiefs-chairman\/\" target=\"_blank\">Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown<\/a> avoided setting off any major fireworks during his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday to serve as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/05\/05\/what-gen-cq-brown-would-bring-as-chairman-of-the-joint-chiefs\/\" target=\"_blank\">next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff<\/a>, maintaining his reputation as a nonpartisan officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But he forcefully laid out the impact that a blanket Senate hold on hundreds of senior military confirmations, including his own, is having on the readiness of the joint force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have strong deputies, but at the same time they don\u2019t have the same level of experience going forward,\u201d Brown told the Senate Armed Services Committee. \u201cIn addition to the senior officers, there\u2019s a whole chain of events that goes down to our junior officers. And that has an impact.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown said the holds on senior military officers instated by Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., also prevents junior officers from moving up the chain of command, hindering their careers. He noted that if the Senate doesn\u2019t promote the senior officers, they remain in their current positions, \u201cblocking the spot for someone else.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, he said it impacts the families of staffers and junior officers as well, preventing them for planning their futures amid uncertainty over where they\u2019ll be based.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhether it\u2019s school, whether it\u2019s employment, whether it\u2019s the fact that they already sold their home because they thought they were going to move and are now living in temporary quarters, that creates a challenge,\u201d said Brown. \u201cWe will lose talent. The spouse network is alive and well, and the spouses will compare notes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tuberville started a blanket hold on senior military confirmations in February, demanding that the Pentagon rescind its new policy providing paid travel leave for troops to travel to receive abortion services if they\u2019re stationed in states where it\u2019s no longer legal. He was not in the room when Brown outlined the impact his military holds have had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic lawmakers are reluctant to devote limited floor time to confirming otherwise non-controversial military nominees usually confirmed unanimous consent, even for senior leaders like Brown. Senate Armed Services Chairman Jack Reed, D-R.I., noted on Monday that it would take 84 days to confirm all 253 promotions held up on the Senate floor if senators did nothing but vote on them for eight hours a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who chairs the military personnel panel, noted that Tuberville\u2019s hold will soon affect approximately 650 military confirmations, significantly lengthening that 84-day timeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2018Nonpartisan\u2019 aims as chairman<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Biden in May nominated Brown, 60, to be the nation\u2019s next top military officer. If confirmed, he would succeed current Joint Chiefs chairman Army Gen. Mark Milley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his hearing, Brown was praised by most senators for his experience and leadership ability, and he appeared to have broad support on the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown stressed to senators how important it is to maintain the military\u2019s distance from politics in his hearing, and pledged to set a personal example of remaining nonpartisan if confirmed as chairman. Still, he could not avoid questions on several controversies that have ensnared the armed forces in recent years, including racial and diversity issues and the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown said he would expect the rest of the force to exhibit the same nonpartisanship he promised to demonstrate \u2014 but he also asked civilian leaders not to pull the military into political debates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need to stay out of politics, and stay nonpartisan, nonpolitical,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAnd at the same time, advocate that our civilian leadership not to bring us into political situations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A simmering debate over whether diversity and inclusion initiatives were appropriate in the military erupted late in the hearing, when Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., began his questioning of Brown by asking, \u201cDo we have too many White officers in the Air Force?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmitt criticized Brown for signing onto an Aug. 9, 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.af.mil\/Portals\/1\/documents\/2022SAF\/Officer_Source_of_Commission_Applicant_Pool_Goals_memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">memo titled \u201cOfficer Source of Commission Applicant Pool Goals,\u201d<\/a> that updated the service\u2019s racial, gender and ethnicity demographic goals for the pool of officer applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That memo, which was also signed by Air Force Sec. Frank Kendall, then-Undersecretary Gina Ortiz Jones, and Space Force Chief of Space Operations Gen. Jay Raymond, called those applicant goals \u201caspirational,\u201d and called for Air Education and Training Command and the U.S. Air Force Academy to come up with diversity and inclusion outreach plans to achieve those goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmitt pointed to the memo\u2019s goal of having an applicant pool that is 67.5% White, and characterized it as saying that is what the service\u2019s population of officers should be. This, Schmitt said, would amount to \u201ca reduction, essentially, of about 9% of the White officers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown said the memo was on application goals, not what the actual makeup of the officer corps should be, and that the percentages were based on nationwide demographics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Air Force was not advocating for racial quotas, Brown told Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., which are against the military\u2019s policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the hearing, Brown said the Air Force\u2019s efforts to improve diversity are important to give airmen of all backgrounds a chance at excelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll they want is a fair opportunity to perform,\u201d Brown said. \u201cAnd by providing that fair opportunity, they do not want to be advantaged or disadvantaged or discounted based on their background.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his own roles as a fighter pilot, instructor and commandant of the Air Force Weapons School, Brown said that he wanted to earn all his advancements based on his own merits, not because of his background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t want to be the best African-American F-16 pilot,\u201d Brown said. \u201cI wanted to be the best F-16 pilot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recruiting challenges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, he said, the Air Force needed to make an effort to reach out to multiple populations across the nation, so they know what opportunities are out there, while not compromising on their qualifications or merit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYoung people only aspire to be what they know about,\u201d Brown said. \u201cIf they don\u2019t know anything about the military, and we don\u2019t outreach to them, we may miss some tremendous talent. But they\u2019ve got to be qualified, because we\u2019re a merit-based organization.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And with the military facing serious recruiting challenges, Brown said it will be even more important for officials such as himself to \u201creconnect with the nation\u201d and talk about the opportunities military service can provide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Republican senators also pressed Brown on what he would do as chairman to restore to service about 8,000 troops who were kicked out of the military for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown indicated an openness to allowing some of those discharged troops to reapply and return to service on a case-by-case basis, as long as the vaccine refusal was the only negative mark on their record. But he noted that, as chairman, he would not be in the chain of command to make such decisions, and could only offer his advice to leaders of the individual services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schmitt said allowing those troops to reapply isn\u2019t good enough, and said they should be reinstated with rank and back pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lessons from Ukraine, and modernizing<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown also endorsed multiyear procurement as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/pentagon\/2023\/06\/07\/gen-cq-brown-multiyear-missile-buys-would-stabilize-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">means to bolster munitions production<\/a>, pointing to the Pentagon\u2019s fiscal 2024 budget request for multiyear authorizations to buy items like the Patriot surface-to-air guided missile system and the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System. He argued that doing so would \u201chelp provide predictability to the defense-industrial base, to their supply chains and to their workforce.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He noted that the war in Ukraine has \u201cexposed\u201d underlying issues in the defense-industrial base, such as the ability to surge munitions production. Additionally, he endorsed a Pentagon plan to transfer weapons from U.S. stockpiles to Taiwan under the same authority that President Joe Biden has used to arm Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown said that munitions sent to Ukraine and Taiwan \u201care somewhat different just based on the environment that they\u2019re operating in, but there are some that are similar.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asked about lessons drawn from the Ukraine war, Brown said the conflict has highlighted the importance of air power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom my own perspective as an airman, the value of airpower and having watched what either side has been able to do or not do, but the value of innovative air defense and how that\u2019s been helpful to the Ukrainians in defense of their nation,\u201d said Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also highlighted how logistics challenges have hampered Russia\u2019s would-be-conquest of Ukraine, and the difficulty of measuring a military\u2019s will to fight. Additionally, he said it stressed the value of using intelligence before a crisis occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his three years as Air Force chief of staff, Brown has pushed his service to modernize and prepare for a fight against an advanced adversary such as China \u2014 an effort he dubbed Accelerate Change or Lose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brown reiterated the importance of modernizing to be able to meet a new threat, even if it means sacrificing one\u2019s \u201cown parochial interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That can be a challenge, he acknowledged. But he pledged to carry that mindset into his new role heading the joint chiefs, if confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe challenge there is having all of our service members understanding the big picture, and why this is so important, why we need to modernize, and what\u2019s at stake,\u201d Brown said. \u201cThen you step away from your own parochial interests and then we do what\u2019s best \u2014 not just for your part of the organization, but what\u2019s best for the entire organization.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. 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