Snapshot · The Bulwark Podcast
General Chappie James, in a famous military mythology moment, pulled his gun on a young Muammar Gaddafi during a confrontation at a US base in Libya, forcing Gaddafi to back down.
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Chappie James was a Tuskegee trainer, Korean and Vietnam fighter pilot, Reagan's model soldier, and the first Black 4-star general in U.S. history. He once pulled a gun on a young Muammar Gaddafi and made him back down. When the Trump administration removed his portrait from the Pentagon's Air Force Gallery, Black officers didn't just see a picture disappear — they saw their own futures erased.
The portrait of General Chappie James — the first Black 4-star general in U.S. military history — was taken down from the Air Force Gallery in the Pentagon early in Trump's second term.
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