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(144,194 posts) Thu Dec 5, 2024, 04:18 AM Dec 5

Trump selects a former soldier and Iraq War veteran to serve as Army secretary

Source: AP

Updated 5:04 PM EST, December 4, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has selected a former soldier and Iraq War veteran to serve as his secretary of the Army.

Daniel P. Driscoll, who is from North Carolina, had been serving as a senior advisor to Vice President-elect JD Vance, whom he met when both were attending Yale Law School. He ran unsuccessfully in the Republican primary for a North Carolina congressional seat in 2020, getting about 8% of the vote in a crowded field of candidates.

“Dan will be a fearless and relentless fighter for America’s Soldiers and the America First agenda,” Trump said on his social media platform.

If confirmed, Driscoll, 38, would take the helm of a military branch that has been struggling to overcome recruiting shortfalls through a sweeping overhaul of its programs and staffing. The Army is also undertaking a widespread effort to revamp and modernize its weapons systems. Since his graduation from Yale in 2014 and his tour in the Army, Driscoll has worked at several investment banking and consulting firms in North Carolina.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-army-secretary-soldier-driscoll-iraq-war-b50d0fceec05f8088af6a4dd43335939

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Trump selects a former soldier and Iraq War veteran to serve as Army secretary (Original Post) 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

SomewhereInTheMiddle

(407 posts)

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]

moniss

(6,150 posts)

2. First Louie

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 05:30 AM

Dec 5

going to run the Army? Why of course. What could go wrong?

SomewhereInTheMiddle

(407 posts)

3. And I thought the Strategic Corporal was a Marine concept.

Reply to moniss (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 06:00 AM

Dec 5

https://www.mca-marines.org/wp-content/uploads/1999-Jan-The-strategic-corporal-Leadership-in-the-three-block-war.pdf

moniss

(6,150 posts)

4. Very appropriate reference and

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 06:37 AM

Dec 5

interesting to note that this is from 1999 and the writer who was so sure of what he wrote was also proclaiming that by 2020 85% of the world's population would have shifted to living in coastal cities. It may yet come to that and but somehow I'm not as sure about the Strategic Corporal as the writer was.

SomewhereInTheMiddle

(407 posts)

5. Wait long enough and the coast will come to you! N/t

Reply to moniss (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 07:41 AM

Dec 5

moniss

(6,150 posts)

6. Yes indeed!! Also

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 08:23 AM

Dec 5

it may meet the new glacier seeming to form this week in the Midwest!!

Redleg

(6,248 posts)

8. I remember reading about the "zero defects mentality" years ago

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 10:09 AM

Dec 5

when I was a young officer. The whole notion of "freedom to fail" was relatively new at the time and a hard nut to swallow for some of the senior officers and NCOs.

Redleg

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

Reply to moniss (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 10:05 AM

Dec 5

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.. unless that meant making coffee and taking notes in meetings. Even then it would be a challenge.

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