General Mark Milley left his position as the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US armed forces on Friday after the end of a mandate marked by numerous crises both abroad and on the territory of the US, according to the AFP agency, quoted by Agerpres.

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Charles “CQ” Brown, currently in command of Air Force One, will take his place. After Colin Powell in the 1990s, he will become the second African-American to hold such a high post in the US military.

Since taking office in October 2019, “crises have followed one another” non-stop, Mark Milley told AFP recently. Along with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Mark Milley coordinated US military assistance to Ukraine in the face of Russian invasion.

His mandate was marked by the American disaster in Kabul, when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan and its capital in August 2021 after a 20-year war that Mark Milley himself described as a “strategic failure”.

He was also in the spotlight at the end of the “Trump era”, when it was revealed after the publication that he had contacted his Chinese counterpart several times to reassure him of the American position. And that’s without warning Donald Trump, the current president he was worried about.

Gen. Milley regretted being present with Donald Trump when the president ordered a Black Livers Matter demonstration outside the White House to be disbanded in order to pose for a photo in front of a church with a Bible in hand.

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Millie’s successor, CQ Brown, is a highly experienced ex-pilot with 3,000 flying hours, including 130 combat hours.

A brigadier general, he was later appointed commander of US Air Forces in the Middle East and Pacific.

This general was seen in the summer of 2020 in the midst of the anti-racism “Black Lives Matter” demonstrations amid the emotions caused by the death of George Floyd, who died while in custody.

He published a video in which he talked about the discrimination he experienced, including in the army. General Brown’s Senate confirmation has been long delayed by deliberate obstruction of a conservative senator who has used his power for months to voice his opposition to a Pentagon decision to help military women get abortion rights.

CQBrown was eventually confirmed by a vote that broke the impasse.