The Senate voted 66-28 on Tuesday to confirm Daniel Driscoll, an Iraq War veteran, as secretary of the Army.
Military Times reported that Driscoll said during his Senate confirmation hearing that ramping up Army recruitment and “reinvigorating the defense industrial base” would be his top priorities if confirmed.
The Army veteran also told senators that he would serve as “the soldiers’ secretary of the Army, not of the generals or of the bureaucracy.”
Driscoll’s Career Background
The North Carolina native is a former senior adviser to Vice President JD Vance, whom he met at Yale Law School.
His nearly four years in the Army included a deployment to Iraq in 2009. The Army Ranger School graduate served as a cavalry officer with the 10th Mountain Division and left the service branch with the rank of first lieutenant.
Driscoll previously worked at private equity and venture capital firms.
He ran for the Republican nomination to represent North Carolina’s 11th congressional district during the 2020 election.
