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KewlKat

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Thu Nov-06-08 06:08 PM
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10. It's been posted many, many times that Clark CAN NOT be

Sec of Defense because he's not been out of the military for 10 years. Congress could pass a law to allow it, as was done for George Marshall, but I doubt anyone would be interested in initiating that.

By statute the secretary must be a civilian who has not served in the active component of the armed forces for at least 10 years (10 U.S.C. § 113 - Note that Congress passed a law to allow George Marshall to be appointed in 1950 despite having only been a civilian since 1945).

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