What could possibly go wrong?
As we discussed here, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll recently resigned over clashes with Pete Hegseth and Trump, and now he's been replaced with someone with zero military experience: Trump names Adam Telle as acting army secretary following departure of Dan Driscoll:
Telle is currently the assistant secretary of the army for civil works.
“He is a Great Patriot, who is respected by all,” the US president wrote in a Truth Social post. [...]
Telle has been at the Army Office of Civil Works since August 2025, according to Legistorm, a website that tracks lawmakers and Capitol Hill staffers. Before that, Telle spent 20 years mostly working in Congress for lawmakers, including as chief of staff for Republican Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee from 2021 to 2025.
Telle had a job for 18 months working in the White House during Trump’s first term as a special assistant to the president for legislative affairs, Legistorm said. He also spent more than 10 years working for the late Republican Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi.
Telle will be overseeing the country’s largest fighting force at a time when the US is still engaged in conflict with Iran and significant army forces are stationed in the Middle East.
This pretty much sums it up:
Meet MAGAt Adam Telle, the freshly minted acting Secretary of the Army. His qualifications for leading the most powerful ground force on Earth? Zero days in boots, zero deployments, and absolutely zero military experience.
Apparently, managing federal water permits and playing… pic.twitter.com/y7UbeHTtir— MAGAts_Exposed (@MAGAts_Exposed) September 5, 2026
