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US Senate confirms Lloyd Austin as first Black Pentagon chief

COVID-19 vaccination underway for US military in Afghanistan Doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived in Afghanistan on Jan. 17 and inoculation began the next day, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan said. VINCENT DE GROOT/IOWA AIR NATIONAL GUARD By J.P. LAWRENCE | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 23, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalis...

Doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived in theater Jan. 17 and inoculation began the next day, U.S. Forces – Afghanistan said.

Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who had led US war troops in Iraq, won Senate confirmation Friday to become the nation’s first Black secretary of defense.

Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will have to contend not only with a world of security threats and a massive military bureaucracy, but also

By Master Sgt. Paul Gorman, 379th Air Expeditionary Wing / Published January 23, 2021 U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Oladipupo Ayeqbo, flight service center apprentice with the 379th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron, collects trash outside of a logistics facility Dec. 10, 2020, as part of a seven day base wide cleanup initiative at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. A total of 239 Airmen assembled 21 teams to participate in the competitive event, resulting in the removal of m...

File Photo: Pat Donahue | Thomasville Times Enterprise Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin speaks at the 2017 rededication of Lt. Henry O. Flipper’s grave near Thomasville, the resting place of the first Black graduate of West Point. S.Ga. recalls defense secretarys Thomasville days By Pat Donahue pat.donahue@gaflnews.com Jan 23, 2021 File Photo: Pat Donahue | Thomasville Times Enterprise Retired Gen. Lloyd Austin speaks at the 2017 rededication of Lt. Henry O. Flipper’...

Lloyd J. Austin III was swiftly sworn in as secretary of defense Friday, filling a senior national security position in President Joe Biden’s Cabinet, one briefly threatened by unease among lawmakers to again put a recently retired general in charge of the Pentagon. Austin, the first Black defense secretary in the nation’s history, faces numerous […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lloyd J. Austin, a West Point graduate who rose to the Army’s elite ranks and marched through racial barriers in a 41-year career, won...

The Democratic-controlled Congress easily passed legislation Thursday required to confirm retired Gen. Lloyd Austin as President Joe Biden’s secretary of defense, brushing aside concerns that his retirement occurred inside the seven-year window that safeguards civilian leadership of the military.