For the Record The next Defense secretary called war ‘a hell of a hoot’

For the Record The next Defense secretary called war ‘a hell of a hoot’ For the Record: The following Defense secretary called war 'one serious hoot' Donald Trump on Thursday affirmed that his pick for Defense secretary will be James "Distraught Dog" Mattis, an erudite, intense talking resigned Marines Corps general who's censured the Obama organization and called war "one serious hoot." "It's amusing to shoot a few people," Mattis, who will regulate a $600 billion spending plan and 1 million dynamic obligation troops, said in 2005. Mattis drove the military's Central Command, directing operations in the Middle East. He resigned in 2013. Over his 40 or more year profession, he drove troops in battle in Afghanistan and Iraq and talked gruffly of war in a way that spoke to troops. Trump on Thursday contrasted Mattis with Gen. George Patton, the amazing World War II administrator, while Sen. John McCain called him "one of the finest military officers of his era." The improvements everything except preclude any probability of the Defense secretary part setting off to The General, the inadequately enlivened CGI representative for accident protection who we trusted was Trump's second pick.