Joint Chiefs Chairman Confirmed
The Senate on Friday unanimously confirmed Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, an expert on computer and space warfare, to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The Senate approved Myers’ nomination one day after he was praised by members of the Senate Armed Services Committee as the right man to lead the services into an era of changing threats and technologies.
Myers, who had been vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs under retiring Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton, heads a major study of new Pentagon strategies and weapons for Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
Myers, a former head of the Air Force’s Space Command, becomes the first non-Army general in more than a decade to hold the military’s top job.
“What will keep me awake at night in this job are those things we haven’t thought about,” Myers told the Senate panel this week while he discussed the terrorist attacks on the United States.
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