Fanning has been an upper-echelons DOD fixture for a long time. He was DepUnderSec Navy, Acting Sec AF, the SecDef's COS and considered one of his closest advisors, and this current move was foreseen when he became the Acting UnderSec Army in July and SecArmy McHugh announced he would be leaving in November.
http://www.armytimes.com/story/milit...army/29770689/
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
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