The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

Robert Salesses, deputy ... assistant to Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, to be the acting secretary. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Averill has been a senior career ...

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A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Averill has been a senior ... deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of ...