WASHINGTON: Dan Caine might not have been on Washington’s radar earlier than Friday (Feb 21) evening. However President Donald Trump’s fascination with the retired three-star normal, his shock decide to change into the following chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, seems to return to their first assembly in Iraq in 2018.
Caine, then the deputy commander of a particular operations process power combating Islamic State, instructed the president that the militant group could possibly be destroyed in only a week, Trump recalled throughout a speech to the Conservative Political Motion Convention in 2019.
Since then, he has retold the story about how he met “Razin” Caine a number of occasions – and the reward has solely grown extra effusive.
“He is an actual normal, not a tv normal,” Trump stated in Miami on Wednesday, two days earlier than his Reality Social publish catapulted Caine from retirement to a nomination to be essentially the most senior active-duty officer within the US navy.
If authorised by the Senate, Caine will take over a navy that’s reeling from change within the first 30 days of the Trump administration and can inherit a Joint Workers rattled by Trump’s surprise firing of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers, Air Drive Common CQ Brown.
Caine, a retired F-16 pilot, might be promoted to four-star normal, after which must bear a probably grueling Senate affirmation course of to get a four-year time period because the uniformed head of the nation’s navy.
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Caine’s navy profession is a far cry from the standard path to turning into the president’s high navy adviser. Earlier generals and admirals have led a combatant command or a navy department of service.
Caine didn’t rise that prime within the ranks earlier than retirement. In response to Trump, he was “handed over for promotion by Sleepy Joe Biden”, whom Trump defeated in November’s presidential marketing campaign.
“However not anymore!”, Trump wrote on Reality Social.
Earlier this yr Caine described on a podcast how as a younger man he wished to observe within the footsteps of his father, a fighter pilot.
“We began shifting round as a child. So I felt like this was one thing that I actually, actually, actually wished to do, was fly jets within the Air Drive,” Caine stated.
He graduated in 1990 from the Virginia Navy Institute with a bachelor’s diploma in Arts and Economics.
