Paul Shipley

Thank you, God bless our veterans, and God bless America.

It is now my humble honor to introduce the 12th Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Secretary Doug Collins is an accomplished attorney with more than a decade of legislative experience representing the people of Georgia in the state legislature and later the U.S.

House of Representatives.

As a U.S.

Air Force Reserve chaplain, Secretary Collins has ministered to our country's military since 2002.

He completed a 2008 and 2009 deployment to Iraq while stationed at Balad Air Base.

Collins remains a colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve, and he previously served in the U.S.

Navy Reserve.

Please join me in warmly welcoming VA Secretary Doug Collins.