‘We’ve drowned ourselves in buzzwords:’ Acting US Army secretary gives sermon-like first speech

One year ago, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll eviscerated bureaucratic delay and acquisition roadblocks in a profanity-laced public address . On Monday, his successor, Acting Army Secretary Adam Telle , took things back to the biblical book of Genesis in his first public speech to troops since assuming the role. “Controlling land is fundamental to humanity,” he told a packed ballroom at the Association of the United States Army’s annual meeting . “The Army does it better than anyone, and it’s on us, the people in this room, to keep it that way. Humanity’s connection to the land is biblical, and…