General Charles Quinton Brown Jr. is a retired United States Air Force general who served as the 21st Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2023 to 2025. Prior to this, he was the 22nd Chief of Staff of the Air Force from 2020 to 2023, becoming the first African American service chief in U.
S. military history. He retired from the U.
S. Air Force after nearly 40 years of service.