Saint Mattis of Quantico, Patron Saint of Chaos, Gen. James Mattis, USMC, (Ret.) has tendered his resignation letter as the 26th United States Secretary of Defense after some 700 days in the barrel. He was the first career military man (42 years on active duty, including command of 1st MARDIV in the Iraq War) since Gen. George Marshall to hold the position since it was established in 1947, and by all accounts a modern warrior poet. Hard to fathom who will replace him.
