Dan Caine
U.S. Air Force general (born 1968)
John Daniel "Razin" Caine (born 10 August 1968) is an American general who has served as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since 2025. He served as the associate director for military affairs at the Central Intelligence Agency from 2021 to 2024.
Caine graduated from the Virginia Military Institute's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps in 1990 and served in various roles within the United States Air Force, mainly as an F-16 pilot. As of 2025, Caine has 2,800 flight hours and served two tours in Iraq. He was the assistant commanding general (CG) of Joint Special Operations Command from 2016 to 2018, a deputy commander for the Operation Inherent Resolve special operations task force from 2018 to 2019, and the director of special-access programs in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment from 2019 to 2021. He retired from the military in 2024.
In February 2025, President Donald Trump nominated Caine as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Caine was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April. He is the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who never served at the rank of four-star general or admiral before being nominated. Furthermore, Caine is the first to be nominated while in retirement, and the first to have been nominated as a member of a reserve component.
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