So long, Charles Brown

Not That Charlie Brown

Seen here is Charles Q. Brown Jr., probably the most powerful Charlie Brown there has ever been… except they didn’t call him “Charlie”. Mostly, they called him “sir”, as he rose through the ranks of the United States Air Force to become a four-star general… and then the Air Force Chief of Staff, and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest military position that the US has.

Chairman Brown was dismissed from that position last week, during the Trump administration’s purge of every member 0f the Joint Chiefs who was not a white man.

The AAUGH Blog thanks him for his service to this country and wishes him well.

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