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Ronny Jackson: Trump Hires Another High-Ranking Officer description: President Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, announcing he would nominate White House doctor Ronny Jackson to the post canonical: https://time.com/5219779/adm-ronny-jackson-trump-hires-generals-officers-military/ author: Katie Reilly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-28T23:39:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:04:28.238Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Trump Just Picked Another Military Leader for a Top Job og:description: Ronny Jackson, a Navy rear admiral, has been tapped to be Veterans Affairs Secretary og:url: https://time.com/5219779/adm-ronny-jackson-trump-hires-generals-officers-military/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd585b2fff033ec20/69892c47bc6cfc34f63e5805/ronny-jackson-veterans-affairs-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3520 og:image:height: 1980 og:image:alt: US-POLITICS-TRUMP og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Trump Just Picked Another Military Leader for a Top Job twitter:description: Ronny Jackson, a Navy rear admiral, has been tapped to be Veterans Affairs Secretary twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd585b2fff033ec20/69892c47bc6cfc34f63e5805/ronny-jackson-veterans-affairs-trump.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Adm. 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President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin on Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency._  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 28, 2018 11:39 PM UTC President Donald Trump fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin on Wednesday in the wake of a bruising ethics scandal and a mounting rebellion within the agency.  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Mar 28, 2018 11:39 PM UTC President Trump on Wednesday fired Veterans Affairs Secretary [David Shulkin](http://time.com/5219737/trump-fires-veterans-affairs-secretary-david-shulkin-admiral-ronny-jackson/) and announced on Twitter that he would nominate Ronny Jackson, the White House physician, to the post. Jackson, a Navy rear admiral, has been a White House physician since 2006, first becoming physician to the president under Barack Obama in 2013. Shulkin’s firing is the latest in a series of recent [staffing shakeups](http://time.com/5203918/donald-trump-white-house-firing-staffing/) in Trump’s White House. And Jackson’s appointment is the latest example of Trump hiring a [high-ranking officer for a top position](http://time.com/4585503/why-trump-is-interviewing-generals-for-his-cabinet/) in his administration. Retired four-star Marine Corps General James Mattis is currently serving as Secretary of Defense. Retired four-star Marine Gen. [John Kelly](http://time.com/4894987/why-general-john-kelly-trump-last-hope/), who was originally Trump’s Homeland Security secretary, is now White House chief of staff. Refore [resigning last week](http://time.com/5211928/hr-mcmaster-resign-john-bolton-trump-white-house-national-security-advisor/), Army Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster served as national security adviser. And retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — now a [focus of the investigation](http://time.com/5045291/michael-flynn-donald-trump-russia-investigation-robert-mueller/) into Russian election meddling — briefly served as national security adviser before resigning and [setting a record](http://time.com/4670486/michael-flynn-resignation-record/) for the shortest tenure in the role. Jackson first appeared in the spotlight in January while [holding a long press conference](http://time.com/5105096/donald-trump-physical-exam-transcript/) in which he discussed [Trump’s physical and mental health](http://time.com/5104183/donald-trump-health-ronny-jackson/). He began his active duty naval service in 1995 at the Portsmouth Naval Medical Center in Virginia, according to his U.S. Navy [biography](http://www.navy.mil/navydata/bios/bio.asp?bioID=953). ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] [ BLANK_AUDIO ] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5219779/adm-ronny-jackson-trump-hires-generals-officers-military/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5219779/adm-ronny-jackson-trump-hires-generals-officers-military/"},"headline":"Adm. 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