NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (WJAR) — A large government aircraft and a motorcade drew attention at Quonset State Airport in North Kingstown Tuesday morning. On board was Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Caine is the nation’s highest-ranking military officer and the principal military adviser to the president. He traveled to Newport to speak with students, faculty and staff at the U.S. Naval War College.
The visit was kept under wraps. Even the truck driver who brought the mobile staircase used to board the plane said he didn’t know who would be stepping off it. He said he found the job through a load board Friday afternoon.
“I found a load on the load board Friday afternoon and it was a mobile staircase,” the driver Scott Houseknecht said…