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CoastalCodertoday at 1:37 AM2 repliesview on HN

I'd like to suggest calling him SECDEF, not SECWAR.

IMHO the country should not capitulate to Trump's power grabs, even if Congress refuses to perform their oversight duties.


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mpynetoday at 3:01 AM

I'm sympathetic to the viewpoint but I'm not in the habit of policing the names people use for themselves.

I've certainly done more than my fair share of jobs in the Navy where the office I was formally billeted to had long since ceased to actually exist as described due to office renamings. Often things as simple as a department section being elevated into a department branch and people using the new name even while they wait 1-2 years for the manpower records to be fixed and the POM process to cycle through for program resourcing. But still, seems hard to treat it as a crime at one level when no one blinked an eye at the lower level.

Maybe Congress will eventually step in, but in the meantime the American voters made their choice about who they want to run these agencies, so...

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gzreadtoday at 6:38 AM

We could call him by what he does: SECMASSMURDERER