Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates gets a cockpit-front briefing aboard a B-52H Stratofortress during his Dec. 1, 2008, visit to Minot Air Force Base, N.D., home of the 91st Missile Wing and 5th Bomb Wing. DoD photo by Donna Miles From The U.S. Department Of Defense:
MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D, Dec. 2, 2008 – Calling his past two years as defense secretary “the most gratifying experience of my life,” Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told about 1,000 airmen here yesterday that he shares their commitment to service and feels both compelled and honored to retain his post into the next administration.
The secretary opened his address to about 1,000 airmen gathered in a B-52H Stratofortress hangar telling them it had not been his “expectation or desire” to remain in the Pentagon post beyond the Bush administration. However, he said, Obama had persuaded him to stay “a little bit longer,” not specifying exactly how long that might be.
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My Comment: Missile Defense and the need to modernize America's nuclear forces will be one of the top issues for Sec. Def. Gates to address for the Obama administration.