The impending return of Donald Trump as Commander in Chief has caused some Pentagon officials to fear one of his first changes will be to replace current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown, Politico reported on Friday.

During Trump’s first term, conflict arose between the White House and the Pentagon during the riots of 2020 over the Insurrection Act which Trump wanted to invoke to bring order to civil unrest. One of Trump’s chief critics was C.Q. Brown, then chief of staff of the Air Force, who has spoken publicly about his rise as a Black man in the military and has been a staunch supporter of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI).

“There is some anxiety,” one current Department of Defense official said to the outlet on a condition of anonymity. “I think they are immediately worried,” the official said of Brown’s team.

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