Biden nominates history-making fighter pilot as Joint Chiefs chair.

President Joe Biden has nominated Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, making him the first African American to lead any of the military branches. Brown, who is currently the Air Force chief, has spent much of his career being one of the Air Force’s top aviators, one of its few Black pilots and often one of the only African Americans in his squadron. If confirmed, he would be part of another first — the first time the Pentagon’s top two posts were held by African Americans, with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin the top civilian leader.