Top 10 stories of 2018: Wilkie sworn in as Veterans Affairs secretary
Fayetteville’s Robert Wilkie was tasked earlier this year to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs.Wilkie, who grew up outside Fort Bragg as the son of an Army officer, still considers Fayetteville home. He is the first VA secretary to come from North Carolina.He oversees the nation’s second-largest government agency, which is charged with caring for nine million veterans and more than 1,700 government-run health care facilities.Wilkie’s confirmation was seen as a “new […]
