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I felt that it was quite legitimate for the Commandant to sit with the Joint Chiefs as a non-voting member and to provide his expertise . " Powell , the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the star of the Gulf War , still commands rapt enthusiasm from audiences , and the reception has n't lost any tingle since George W. Bush began fueling speculation that , if elected , he would name Powell his secretary of state , " reported the Boston Globe . Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard Myers and senior members of the Senate 's Military Construction Subcommittee such as Dianne Feinstein ( D-CA ) are apparently incapable of completing a sentence without using it . " Shalikashvili , who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs from 1993 to 1997 , joins other senior retired military officers who have called for repeal of " Do n't Ask , Do n't Tell . In the mid-1970s , Holloway sat in at the White House Situation Room for Air Force Gen. George Scratchley Brown , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , whenever he was out of town . Illustration : there 's a helpful diagram at the bottom of " Chain of Command for Combat Forces " ( which also says : " The operational chain of command extends from the President to the SECDEF through the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the commanders of the unified and specified commands and then to the operating forces " ) . It should be remembered that it was Zinni who acted in concert with Bill Clinton , cutting the Joint Chiefs out of the loop , to execute the disastrous rocket attack on Al Queda camps in Afghanistan .