NPR's A Martinez asks Sen. Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, about the Pentagon shakeup that included the firing of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr.

President Donald Trump has dismissed several top military officials, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News Sunday why Gen. Charles Q.

Trump announced the dismissal of Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. and said he would nominate Lt. Gen. Dan Caine, a retired three-star general, to succeed him as the top U.S. military officer.

Charles Q. Brown Jr. was “not the right man for the ... approach we want to take,” Mr. Hegseth said. But Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee ...

The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot, broke a tradition in which the Joint Chiefs ...

Charles "CQ" Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of ... position of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff." Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the committee, said he was "troubled ...

Jack Reed (D-R.I.) offered President Trump a fiery ... His criticism came just after Trump ousted Air Force Gen. C.Q. Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Trump fired Brown, a ...