There is a ''little problem'' ...
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To take the job, Mattis will need Congress to pass legislation to bypass a federal law stating that defense secretaries must not have been on active duty in the previous seven years. Congress has granted a similar exemption just once, when Gen. George C. Marshall was appointed to the job in 1950.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...d25_story.html
So, the nomination will be controversial and the confirmation process lengthy. This may just be diversionary to allow the other nominations to slip through rubber stamped.