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United States Secretary of Defense (view source)
Revision as of 07:18, May 8, 2013
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The '''United States Secretary of Defense''' is the head of the [[Department of Defense]]. The current Secretary of Defense is [[Leon Panetta]], who was nominated by [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[Barack H. Obama]] on July 11, 2011, and approved by the US Senate shortly after.
The '''United States Secretary of Defense''' is the head of the [[Department of Defense]]. The current Secretary of Defense is [[Chuck Hagel]], who was nominated by [[President of the United States of America|President]] [[Barack H. Obama]] and approved by the US Senate on February 27, 2013.
==History==
==History==
|[[Robert Gates]]||December 18, 2006|||July 11, 2011
|[[Robert Gates]]||December 18, 2006|||July 11, 2011
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|[[Leon Panetta]]||July 11, 2011|||Incumbent
|[[Leon Panetta]]||July 11, 2011|||February 27, 2013
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|[[Chuck Hagel]]||February 27, 2013|||Incumbent
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