"The Joint Chiefs are not in the chain of command" is not entirely accurate. They are in the CoC on paper, but in practice all they really do is advise the President. They have no actual command authority, and that includes the Chairman. The Unified Combatant Commanders are the highest ranking officers in terms of actual command authority (outranked only by the Secretary of Defense and the POTUS, but those are civilian positions). All 11 UCCs are currently Trump appointees, and we have heard almost nothing about them in the headlines.
"We have great generals, but they are not the ones you see on TV" - Trump
Also, it looks like Patel has not updated this in the article, but he pointed out that the commander of PACOM (Indo-Pacific Command), Admiral Aquilino, did take up his post under Biden. It was later found however that the Admiral was appointed and confirmed to his position by Trump, towards the end of his first term. He only formally took up the post after Biden came in.
This is likely a critically important detail, as Pacific Command's area of operations includes China.
It is worth pointing out also that Aquilino was the one who commissioned General Charles Flynn to command the US Army under PACOM.
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"The Joint Chiefs are not in the chain of command" is not entirely accurate. They are in the CoC on paper, but in practice all they really do is advise the President. They have no actual command authority, and that includes the Chairman. The Unified Combatant Commanders are the highest ranking officers in terms of actual command authority (outranked only by the Secretary of Defense and the POTUS, but those are civilian positions). All 11 UCCs are currently Trump appointees, and we have heard almost nothing about them in the headlines.
"We have great generals, but they are not the ones you see on TV" - Trump
Also, it looks like Patel has not updated this in the article, but he pointed out that the commander of PACOM (Indo-Pacific Command), Admiral Aquilino, did take up his post under Biden. It was later found however that the Admiral was appointed and confirmed to his position by Trump, towards the end of his first term. He only formally took up the post after Biden came in.
This is likely a critically important detail, as Pacific Command's area of operations includes China.
It is worth pointing out also that Aquilino was the one who commissioned General Charles Flynn to command the US Army under PACOM.
I was looking through the coc and the uccs a few months ago, but I guess I missed that they were all Trump appointments.
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Bravo!
Awesome, thanks patriot!