Matias Delacroix/AP The message back from Claver-Carone has amounted to, “I don’t care what the secretary ... Robert Evan Ellis, a professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War ...

The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President ... a Bronze Star for his service in the Gulf War. Hegseth, whose nomination appeared in ...

WASHINGTON — Robert Salesses ... as a Marine in the Gulf War, earning a Bronze Star, The Associated Press reported. Hegseth could see his nomination as defense secretary advanced by the Senate ...

Salesses is a retired Marine who served in the Gulf War ... Robert Salesses, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Washington Headquarters Service, will fill in as acting secretary of defense ...