The secretary of defense is a cabinet position and a part of the executive branch.
Executive Branch
Executive branch
Hagel is the Secretary of Defense which is in the executive department. He is a former US Senator from Nebraska.
The secretary of defense goes under the executive branch. The president is the one that elects officers of the executive branch.
The state of North Carolina does not have a secretary of defense. Only the government of the United States has that post. No state has it.
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The Executive Branch of the Federal government is the branch that chooses who will be Secretary of State in the United States. The President of the United States appoints who will be in this post in the Cabinet.
The United States Department of Defense is part of the executive branch of the United States government. The head of the Department of Defense is the Secretary of Defense, who is a member of the President's cabinet. Other countries have their own equivalents, which are usually presided over by a Minister of Defense.
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Secretary of Defense
the president is the head of the executive branch, the executive branch alos includes the vice-president and the members of the cabinet which are: the secretary of state, the secretary of treasury, secretary of defense, attorney general, secretary of the interior, secretary of agriculture, secretary of commerece, sec. of labor, sec. health and humsn services, sec. of homeland security, sec. of housing and urban development, sec. of transportation, sec. of education, sec. of energy, and sec. of veteran affairs.
The Secretary of State is a member of the Executive Branch.
Technically, if every member of the presidential branch died, the secretary of defense COULD become the president of the United States
The president (Executive branch) appoints the Secretary who must be approved by the Senate (Legislative).