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SomewhereInTheMiddle

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1. Sounds like a great background to run a $185Bn budget agency.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 05:12 AM

Dec 5

1LT with one stint in the sand. And jobs at "several investment banking and consulting firms". I wonder why several? I wonder if they were progressively more responsible positions or if he kept starting over?

Oh! and he got 8% of the vote in a "Republican primary for a North Carolina congressional seat in 2020".

Always picking winners!

Is this better or worse than picking the normal DoD Contractor CEO that most republicans pick?

[sigh]

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Trump selects a former soldier and Iraq War veteran to serve as Army secretary [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 5 OP

Sounds like a great background to run a $185Bn budget agency. SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 5 #1

First Louie moniss Dec 5 #2

And I thought the Strategic Corporal was a Marine concept. SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 5 #3

Very appropriate reference and moniss Dec 5 #4

Wait long enough and the coast will come to you! N/t SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 5 #5

Yes indeed!! Also moniss Dec 5 #6

I remember reading about the "zero defects mentality" years ago Redleg Dec 5 #8

Hell, I was an Army captain and I wouldn't want to be the Army Secretary... Redleg Dec 5 #7