Retired Lieutenant General Dan Kane was not a domestic name before Friday, but his surprise selection as the next president of the Joint Chief of Staff has been organized by Mohan’s President Donald Trump for a military leader.
His connection appears to return to the 2018 meeting in Iraq, a moment that left a permanent impression on the President.
During a 2019 speech at the conservative political action conference, Trump recalled his first encounter with Can.
Then serving as the deputy commander of a special operation task force, a special operation that combat ISIS, allegedly told the President that the militant group could be erased within a week. This bold claim, it seems, resonated with Trump.
Since then, he has told the story about how he met “Razin” Cain many times – and praise has become more confirmed.
Trump said in Miami on Wednesday, “He is a real general, not a television general,” Social post in Miami, two days before his truth, has retired from retirement to being the most senior-duty officer in the US Army. Affairs through retirement for nomination.
If approved by the Senate, Cain will handle an army that is getting away from the change in the first 30 days of the Trump administration and inheritance to a joint employee surprised by the chairman of the Joint Head of Trump, the Chairman of the Air Force General General Will be found in CQ Brown.
A retired F -16 pilot, Can, will be promoted to a four -star General, and then will have to undergo a possible fierce Senate confirmation process to achieve a four -year term as the uniform head of the nation’s army.
Cain’s military career is far from the traditional route to become the top military advisor of the President. Previous generals and fans have led a fighter command or a military branch of service.
He did not increase that high in rank before retirement. According to Trump, he was “passed by Sleepy Joe Biden for promotion,” which was defeated by Trump in the November President campaign.
“But no more!”, Trump wrote on the truth social.
Earlier this year, Can described on a podcast of how he wanted to follow the footsteps of his father, a fighter pilot as a young man.
“We started walking as a child. So I felt that it was something that I really, in fact, really wanted to do, there was a fly jets in the Air Force, ”said Cain.
He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute in 1990 with a bachelor’s degree in art and economics.
Caine, who flew for more than 2,800 hours in F-16, was one of the pilots working for the protection of Washington on 11 September 2001, when Al Qaeda kidnappers by Al Qaeda kidnappers Pentagon in New York City and World Trade Center Commercial jets were slammed.
Can Cain realize that if someone crossed his path, he may have to shoot a kidnapped aircraft.
“I was very minded that if we made a mistake or if we found it wrong or if we missed someone and we did not shoot, it could destroy the results,” can, which also T -37 and T- Has flown 38 aircraft said in an article posted on the CIA website.
Cain served several positions in the capital since 2005. He was a special assistant for the Secretary in the Department of Agriculture and the Director of Policy for Anti -Terrorism in the Homeland Security Council of the White House.
According to his official Air Force biography, Kane was a part -time member of the National Guard and “a serial entrepreneur and investor” from 2009 to 2016.
He was recently an associate director for military affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency, before his retirement in the end of last year.
But this was his time in Iraq from 2018 to 2019 which helped him attract Trump’s attention.
Cain would be subject to specifically investigations to ensure that it is political, a concern that increased to firing of four-star General Brown on Friday night. Uniformed military officers are considered loyal to the US Constitution and are considered independent of any party or political movement.
A senior American military officer who has worked with Cain for more than a decade, said he wanted to keep the army out of politics.
Caine “keeps missions and soldiers above politics. He is not a political man,” the official said.
How far can Cain can keep the army out of politics, it can largely depend on Trump – which has pulled the army in biased issues in the past.
Recently re -explaining his first meeting in Iraq, Trump stated that Cains were in Hangars, where service members began to put on “Make America Great Again” cap.
“They all put on make America Great Again Hat. Not going to do so, “Trump said during a speech last year.
“I said, ‘You are not going to do this. You know that.’ He said, “It’s fine, we do not care.”
