WASHINGTON (TNND) — President-elect Donald Trump has
picked a well-known television host and Army veteran
officer to serve in his Cabinet.

Trump has selected Fox News host Pete Hegseth (44) to
serve as Secretary of Defense. Hegseth currently co-hosts
"Fox & Friends Weekend."

Hegseth is an Army combat veteran who deployed to Iraq
and Afghanistan. He was decorated with two Bronze Stars,
as well as a Combat Infantryman’s Badge for his service.

Pete Hegseth was previously the executive director of Vets
for Freedom and Concerned Veterans for America.

"Nobody fights harder for the Troops, and Pete will be a
courageous and patriotic champion of our ‘Peace through
Strength’ policy," Trump wrote.

The USS Edsall was a Clemson-class destroyer, measuring
314 feet in length and capable of 35 knots. (US Navy)

U.S. and Australian officials announced Monday, the 
wreckage of the USS Edsall, an American warship that
was sunk during a battle with Japanese forces in World
War II, has been discovered more than 80 years after it
was lost at the bottom of the sea.  

According to the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy,
the final resting place of the USS Edsall, a Clemson-
class destroyer, was located late last year at the bottom
of the Indian Ocean.

Chief of Royal Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Mark
Hammond, said, “Working in collaboration with the
U.S. Navy, the Royal Australian Navy used advanced
robotic and autonomous systems, normally used for
hydrographic survey capabilities, to locate USS Edsall
on the sea-bed."
(FOX NEWS)

Neil Percival Young is 79 years old today.

Upon moving to Los Angeles from Winnipeg,Canada in the 1960s,
Young joined the folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield. He was also
a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

On November 12, 1799, Andrew Ellicott, an early American
astronomer, witnessed the Leonids meteor shower from
a ship off the Florida Keys. Ellicott wrote in his journal
that the “whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with
sky rockets, flying in an infinity of directions, and I was
in constant expectation of some of them falling on the
vessel.

They continued until put out by the light of the sun after
day break.” Ellicott’s journal entry is the first known record
of a meteor shower in North America.