DailyCaller: Donald Trump has selected retired Marine Gen. James Mattis to serve as secretary of defense.
A source intimately familiar with Trump’s transition told The Daily Caller last week that “Mad Dog” Mattis was the favorite for the position, and The Washington Post confirmed the report through a separate source on Thursday.
Mattis only retired four years ago, and the Post notes that Congress must pass “new legislation to bypass a federal law that states secretaries of defense must not have been on active duty in the previous seven years” before being confirmed by either body.
Great choice!
Semper Fidelis
(USMC 1969-1973)
Finally a real leader as the the Sec. of Defense.
Semper Fi
I feel very good that they’re gonna let a dog run….
Trump just announced it in his ‘Thank You’ rally in Cincinnati … swore the audience to secrecy …. lol
A marine captain buddy of mine was quite pleased with this. A warrior and a really smart dude who started out as a grunt and worked his way up. That’s good enough for me.
Turn him loose Mr. President (elect) Trump! It’s well past time that we have an actual WARRIOR as SecDef!
I doubt that he’ll be able to turn back all of the ridiculous social engineering & experimentation that’s been going on in our military, but it will be fun to watch him try. First on your “to do” list…BAN TRANSGENDERS FROM SERVING!
@reb pirate. Why can’t he? Open homosexuality and transgender was executive orders. It’s bad for morale and unit cohesion to have deviants defying military tradition. Iron balls Mattis won’t put up with it.
Trump bitch slapped obama tonight making him not a lame duck, but a dead duck. He sucked the oxygen out of pussy boys lungs tonight.
In a couple of months the shit is going to hit the fan and the sissy’s in D.C. are going to be pissing they’re pants..
See. Something great came out of Washington state!
More winning today! ChiefIlliniCake said it was like living in a full sized Advent calendar and every day brings a new and wonderful prize. 🙂
wow, trump is pulling a complete about face from obama, exactly what is needed to pull us out of the ditch
I hope his first edict is to tell anyone who joined the military to get a sex change operation for free or to dress up in the uniform designed for the opposite sex to get the fuck out of the military now. LGB are welcome to serve, but the TQ need to go. Fuck them and their stupid clown show.
Rumor has it they’re changing the name of the position to Secratary of Offense.
This is really good news! Lib heads exploding.
Nice having some grown ups in charge again!
The Military Gun Weapons guys on IG are all euphoric, maybe drunk. There’s some funny shit being posted.
I hope the first thing he attends to is the procurement system, it seems to be in shambles. When hitting this he could also take care of the senior military commanders that Obama and his people put into place. Bring back some of the real warriors that were forced into retirement and put them back in the saddle.
This has certainly got the attention of our moslim buds. Party time is over boyz, these men mean business. The bowing days are gone, thank heavens.