The Senate voted on Tuesday to confirm Daniel Driscoll to serve as the next secretary of the Army, marking the first of President Donald Trump’s military service secretary positions to be filled.

Driscoll, who was confirmed in a 66-28 vote, is a third-generation soldier, following in the footsteps of his father, a Vietnam War veteran, and his grandfather, who was a decoder during World War II. Prior to his nomination, he most recently served as a senior adviser to Vice President JD Vance.

He served in the Army for more than three years and deployed to Iraq in 2009. He attended Yale Law School when he returned to the U.S., which is where he and Vance met.

“If confirmed, I will prioritize the readiness and modernization of the service to realize that purpose. The world is changing rapidly, and we must ensure the Army is prepared to operate in new, complex and contested environments,” he said during his confirmation hearing in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee last month.

“From advancing our capabilities in multi-domain operations to cutting-edge technologies, my sacred duty to our Army is to ensure our soldiers have the world’s finest training, equipment, and leadership to accomplish any mission, and to be as lethal a force as it can be,” Driscoll added.

When Trump nominated Driscroll in December, the president called him a “disruptor and change agent,” adding that he “will be a fearless and relentless fighter for America’s Soldiers and the America First agenda.”

He had no prior experience in a senior military or civilian leadership role for the Pentagon. He ran to represent North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District in 2020 but lost in the primary to now-former Rep. Madison Cawthorn.

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Driscoll’s confirmation comes as Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Trump have overhauled the department in the first month of the administration. Last week, Trump fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Q. Brown, while Hegseth relieved Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Air Force Vice Chief of Staff, Gen. James Slife, and the top lawyers at three of the service branches.

Hegseth plans to fire more than 5,000 probationary employees in line with the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts across federal agencies to reduce wasteful government spending. They seek to reduce the size of the DoD workforce by 5-8%.