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Daniel P. Driscoll

Daniel P. Driscoll

United States Secretary of the Army

Appears in 2 stories

Born: Boone, NC
Party: Republican Party
Education: Yale University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: United States Secretary of the Army
Previous campaign: 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in North Carolina

Stories

Trump keeps troops in the capital—for now: appeals court freezes order to end D.C. guard deployment

Force in Play

Secretary of the Army - Signed memo extending deployment through 2026

The troops were supposed to start leaving Washington. Instead, the D.C. Circuit hit pause and let President Trump’s National Guard deployment keep rolling while judges decide who really holds the keys to security in the nation’s capital.

Updated Feb 10

The long road to recognition for Japanese American WWII soldiers

Rule Changes

Secretary of the Army - Approved posthumous promotions in fall 2025

In December 1941, seven University of Hawaii students were weeks away from becoming Army officers. Then Pearl Harbor was bombed, and the U.S. government stripped them of their military status and branded them 'enemy aliens.' They volunteered anyway, joined the most decorated unit in American military history, and died fighting Nazis in Europe. Eighty years later, the Army finally granted them the rank they would have earned—if not for wartime discrimination against Japanese Americans.

Updated Jan 28