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BumRushDaShow

(149,961 posts)
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 05:18 AM Dec 2024

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 2024 OP
Sounds like a great background to run a $185Bn budget agency. SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 2024 #1
First Louie moniss Dec 2024 #2
And I thought the Strategic Corporal was a Marine concept. SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 2024 #3
Very appropriate reference and moniss Dec 2024 #4
Wait long enough and the coast will come to you! N/t SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 2024 #5
Yes indeed!! Also moniss Dec 2024 #6
I remember reading about the "zero defects mentality" years ago Redleg Dec 2024 #8
Hell, I was an Army captain and I wouldn't want to be the Army Secretary... Redleg Dec 2024 #7
1. Sounds like a great background to run a $185Bn budget agency.
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 06:12 AM
Dec 2024

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

(6,874 posts)
4. Very appropriate reference and
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 07:37 AM
Dec 2024

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.

Redleg

(6,414 posts)
8. I remember reading about the "zero defects mentality" years ago
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 11:09 AM
Dec 2024

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

(6,414 posts)
7. Hell, I was an Army captain and I wouldn't want to be the Army Secretary...
Thu Dec 5, 2024, 11:05 AM
Dec 2024

Last edited Thu Dec 5, 2024, 04:50 PM - Edit history (1)

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

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