Former Joint Chiefs chairman had ties to Sumter and Shaw

Former Shaw commander ousted month after Tuskegee Airmen material almost scrapped but reinstated to military training courses

BY BRYN EDDY
bryn@theitem.com
Posted 3/5/25

President Donald Trump has fired Air Force Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., a man with close ties to Sumter, as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a position known as the nation's highest-ranking military officer and main adviser to the president, …

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