President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Daniel Driscoll, a senior adviser to Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and an Iraq War veteran, to serve as the next secretary of the Army in the Pentagon.
Mr. Driscoll is a North Carolina resident and, like Mr. Vance, a Yale Law School graduate. He worked in venture capital and private equity and earlier served as an Army officer from August 2007 to March 2011. Mr. Driscoll was deployed to Iraq from October 2009 to July 2010.
“As a former soldier, investor and political advisor, Dan brings a powerful combination of experiences to serve as a disruptor and change agent,” Mr. Trump said Wednesday on his social media platform.
Mr. Vance was running Yale’s veterans’ association when Mr. Driscoll arrived to start law school after completing his military service. Mr. Vance was an ex-Marine who had also served in Iraq and urged his fellow veterans not to feel like they were out of place on the prestigious Ivy League campus.
“You’re going to feel like you don’t belong. You’re going to feel like all these people are smarter than you and it’s just not true,” Mr. Vance said, according to an August 2024 interview Mr. Driscoll gave to the PBS program “Frontline.” “If you can just kind of make it through these first couple of months, you’ll settle in.”
Mr. Driscoll ran for Congress in 2020 to represent North Carolina’s 11th District but lost in the GOP primary to former Rep. Madison Cawthorn.
If he is confirmed by the Senate, he will succeed Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, the first woman to hold the position.
“Dan will be a fearless and relentless fighter for America’s soldiers and the America First agenda,” Mr. Trump said.
• Mike Glenn can be reached at mglenn@washingtontimes.com.
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