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May 25, 2023
May 25, 2023 Updated Feb 21, 2025
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The Air Force fighter pilot about to be nominated as the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff got his call sign by ejecting from a burning F-16 fighter jet high above the Florida Everglades and falling into the watery sludge below. It was January 1991, and then-Capt. Charles Q. Brown Jr., who goes by CQ, had just enough time in his parachute above alligator-full wetlands for a thought to pop into his head. He landed in the muck, which coated his body and got “in his boots and everything." Which is how the nominee to be the country's next top military officer got his call sign: “Swamp Thing.” Brown, now a four-star general and the Air Force chief, was nominated by President Joe Biden on Thursday.

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