Dan Caine
John Daniel "Raizin" Caine (born 10 August 1968) is an American general and venture capitalist who is serving as the 22nd 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 was commissioned in the United States Air Force upon graduation from the Virginia Military Institute in 1990 and has served in various roles within the 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 of Joint Special Operations Command from 2016 to 2018, a deputy commanding general 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 in 2024.
In February 2025, President Donald Trump named Caine as his nominee 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.
Momentum
- 2025-06-04T00:00:00.000000Z
Signals
- 2024-04-03T00:00:00.000000Z
Rivers
- 2020-12-04T00:00:00.000000Z
Conscious
- 2019-11-01T00:00:00.000000Z
Nocturne
- 2018-06-09T00:00:00.000000Z
Cascades
- 2018-05-26T00:00:00.000000Z
Timelessness
- 2017-06-15T00:00:00.000000Z
Transitions
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Solace
- 2016-04-17T00:00:00.000000Z
Transience
- 2015-03-24T00:00:00.000000Z
Still Awake
- 2014-12-29T00:00:00.000000Z
Ephemeris
- 2013-12-27T00:00:00.000000Z
Expanse
- 2025-12-10T00:00:00.000000Z
Becoming
- 2025-10-29T00:00:00.000000Z
Flow State
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Catharsis
- 2022-12-16T00:00:00.000000Z
Hold Me
- 2022-06-17T00:00:00.000000Z
Ebb and Flow
- 2020-11-20T00:00:00.000000Z
Beanstalk
- 2019-10-13T00:00:00.000000Z
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