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Army Chief: Lack Of Confirmed Service Secretary ‘Not Catastrophic’

Thursday, July 27th, 2017

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Army Chief: Lack Of Confirmed Service Secretary ‘Not Catastrophic’

Gen. Mark Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Jim Greenhill)

The Army has been without an appointed senior civilian for more than six months, but the service has not felt a particular lack of leadership even though the Trump Administration has failed to install a secretary, according to Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley.“I would argue that not having a … full-fledged secretary of the Army certainly has not been catastrophic,” Milley said during a July 27 speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. “We’ll work through it.”“It’s…

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