Daniel P. Driscoll

Rule Changes

Approved posthumous promotions in fall 2025

In December 1941, seven University of Hawaii students were weeks away from becoming Army officers when Pearl Harbor was bombed. The U.S. government stripped them of their military status and branded them 'enemy aliens,' but 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 May 23

Force in Play

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 May 15