Hey everybody and welcome back to Cash's Corner.

Thanks for joining us today.

Well Cash, so today I think we gotta talk about this, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

This was reported basically kind of stepping in to speak up against a potential appointment

that you might have had while you were in the Trump administration.

I think first we have to just quickly go over to what is the responsibilities of the chairman of joint chiefs of staff.

And it's very clear in the law, in the statute, cited by the Joint Chiefs of Staff website themselves,

that he is an advisor to the president of the United States for military matters.

That's it.

The law was created in 1947.

A decade later, Congress amended the law to state that the chairman and the Joint Chiefs of Staff

has no executive operational control whatsoever.

Why do they do that?

It's because since the founding of our country, our United States military has always been led by a civilian.

And by law, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

is the highest serving uniformed military officer.

So he cannot conduct operational authority

or combat and command authorities anywhere in the world.

So basically you're telling here that the generals in the military and the armed forces don't report to him in any way.

Well, they seek his advice through the joint staff, as they call, he's the chairman of the joint staff,

and they seek his advice on military matters through that entire system, which is massive.

It's enormous.

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