Yesterday, the conservative leaders who are part of the Conservative Action Project released a Memo for the Movement entitled "Conservatives Oppose Confirmation of General Charles Q. Brown."
You can urge your Senator to oppose the Brown nomination with just a few mouse clicks through this link https://alignact.com/go/restore-not-ravage-our-military .
The Capitol Switchboard is (202-224-3121), call today and tell your Senators however they may have voted on CQ Brown’s previous promotions, his statements quoted above disqualify him for America’s highest military post, which should be in the hands of someone devoted to supporting and defending the Constitution, not a Marxist social engineer. For the footnotes and latest list of signers click here.
July 12, 2023 Washington, DC
The conservative movement opposes the confirmation of General CQ Brown, Jr. as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – the nation’s highest-ranking military officer. Gen. Brown’s track record at the Air Force and his zealous commitment to race-based hiring metrics would jeopardize the unity, lethality and readiness of our armed forces. We urge all senators to oppose his nomination.
Since August 2020, Gen. Brown has served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. Of all the major service branches, the Air Force has leaned the hardest into progressive ideological indoctrination over readiness and merit. Gen. Brown has stated openly that he “purposely built” his office with “diversity” as the core priority, appearing to discriminate against candidates for positions in the Air Force based on their race, religion, and biological sex.[1] Following the death of George Floyd, Gen. Brown released a video in which he seemingly targeted subordinates based on skin color, and adopted the neo-Marxist categorical framing of the oppressed and the oppressors.[2]
Moreover, under Gen. Brown’s leadership, Air Force Academy cadets were told that they may no longer refer to their parents as “mom and dad’ because it was “divisive language.”[3] Gen. Brown also authorized use of Air Force resources to host LGBT pride events, including drag shows for minors.[4]
Further, on August 9, 2022, General Brown and Under Secretary of the Air Force Gina Ortiz Jones signed a memorandum outlining specific officer placement goals based on an individual’s sex and race. Specific quotas were assigned to men and women and parsed out based on the individual’s race to determine what percentage of officers should be white, black, Asian, Hispanic, or Native American.[5]
Unsurprisingly, an over-emphasis on ideological indoctrination and racial quotas has led to a decline in Air Force performance. As seen in the Heritage Foundation’s 2023 Index of U.S. Military Strength the Air Force is the weakest of all branches of the U.S. military and was downgraded in 2023 from its previous score of “weak” to “very weak” due to “the deepening of previously assessed issues related to aging aircraft and very poor pilot training and retention” and noted that “the USAF would struggle greatly against a peer competitor.”[6]
Despite promises by Gen. Brown to make Air Force flight proficiency and safety standards a priority, these standards have decreased. The readiness of all variants of F-35 aircraft has cratered below 60 percent, dropping by 11 percentage points in 2022 alone.[7] Additionally, the entire B-2 bomber fleet was grounded from December 2022-May 2023, incapacitating a major component of the Nuclear Triad, after two serious safety incidents within 15 months. Only one such incident had occurred in the thirty years prior to Gen. Brown’s command.[8]
With such a poor record of leadership, confirmation of Gen. Brown as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would jeopardize national security, the lives of service men and women, and the reputation of the U.S. Military. He is the wrong man for the job. In the interest of having the strongest, most united, and superior military force in the world, we call on all senators to oppose his confirmation.
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
Chairman, CNP Action, Inc.
Lt. Col. Allen West
Executive Director
American Constitutional Rights Union and ACRU Action Fund
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
Lori Roman
President
ACRU Action Fund
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Paul S. Teller, Ph.D. Executive Director Advancing American Freedom
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
The Honorable Brooke Rollins
President and CEO
America First Policy Institute (AFPI)
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
Chad Connelly
Founder and President
Faith Wins
William L. Walton
The Bill Walton Show
Resolute Protector Foundation
Alfred S. Regnery
President
Republic Book Publishers
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
Tom Jones
President
American Accountability Foundation
The Honorable George K Rasley Jr Managing Editor ConservativeHQ.com
Marty Dannenfelser
Vice President for Government Relations and Coalitions, Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE) Wesley Denton
Chief Operating Officer
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI)
The Honorable Russ Vought
Director, Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)
The Honorable Jim DeMint
Chairman, Conservative Partnership Institute
Member, US Senate (SC 2005-2013)
Penny Y. Nance
President & CEO
Concerned Women for America
Mike Berry
General Counsel and Director of External Affairs, First Liberty Institute
Kevin Roberts, Ph.D.
President
The Heritage Foundation
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Thomas E. McClusky
Principal
Greenlight Strategies, LLC Bob Carlstrom
President
AMAC Action
The Honorable T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr.
Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988) Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
Senior Legal Fellow
Conservative Partnership Institute L. Brent Bozell III
Founder and President
Media Research Center
Star Parker
President & Founder, Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE)
The Honorable David McIntosh
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Indiana
Scott T. Parkinson
Gen Charles "CQ" Brown Jr
American Accountability Foundation (AAF)
Joe Biden staff
Biden administration
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gen. Mark Milley
diversity focused hiring
woke military
racial discrimination
Office of Air Force Inspector General complaint
Republican Senator Eric Schmitt
cultural Marxism