WASHINGTON: The US Senate on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) unanimously confirmed America's first ever openly gay official to be the secretary of the Army.

Eric Fanning, 47, had been waiting eight months for his nomination to be confirmed as the Army's top civilian leader, but the process was held up over political squabbling.

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