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In historic move, President-elect Biden appoints retired General Lloyd Austin for top job Crusader Staff Report Retired U. S. Army General Lloyd Austin, III, will serve as the nation’s first Black Secretary of Defense. As the leader and chief executive officer of the United States Department of Defense, Austin, will command the executive department of the United States Armed Forces located at the Pentagon. President-elect Joe Biden, in a historic move, made the announcement Wednesday, Decembe...

Colonel Ash was born in Milford, DE and enlisted in the U.S. Navy in October 1989, completing Naval Nuclear Power training as a reactor operator in April 1992.  He reported to the U.S.S. Jefferson City (SSN 759), as a reactor operator.  In August 1993, he transitioned from the Navy as an Electronics Technician Second Class, submarine qualified sailor to attend the Pennsylvania State University, commissioning as a Second Lieutenant in August 1996.  Colonel Ash graduated from The Basic School ...

Posted on 243 CACI International Inc (NYSE: CACI) announced today that Major General (Ret.), Randolph (Randy) Strong, CACI Vice President and Army Client Executive, was inducted into the Army’s Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony took place on November 18 in Myer Auditorium on Aberdeen Proving Ground, with many senior leaders...

Military conflict. >> no doubt. clarissa ward, thank you so much for the update. joining us now, mark hurtling former commanding general for the u.s. army in europe and cnn military analyst. welcome back. >> great to be with you both this morning. >> lets start here -- we heard from the foreign secretary and from reporting that the british prefer a diplomatic resolution over a military one. cnns reporting is that president trump in private is more hawkish on iran. is placing less emphasis on d...

Further deter iran since the pentagon believes there are still rising threats in the region to u.s. troops. cnn military and diplomatic analyst retired rear admiral john kirby joins us now. admiral, 1,500 troops, patriot missile batteries, reconnaissance aircraft. this request some from centcom, youre told. youve worked with the commanding general. what does it tell you? is this a dramatic escalation, or is this a necessary deployment? >> i wouldnt call it dramatic escalation. 1,500 sounds about...

And get a thought from you. >> i would also like to say this is the army of manning and bergdahl, and if those are the kind of people we want in the army, that is what we are going to end up with. who are we going to have in our ranks if this is what we do to our good men? >> she makes a great point. one thing i want to point out, the charges in this case have been preferred to courts-martia courts-martial. there is still due process that will occur before this case ever gets to courts-martial p...

Why wait? ask your doctor about prolia. a grim reminder from afghanistan just one day after assuming command of nato-led troops the new commanding general in afghanistan had the difficult job of announcing the death of a u.s. service member killed today in whats being referred to as an insider attack. we are told a second american was injured. nicholson took command on sunday. he was one of the first american soldiers to enter afghanistan after 9/11. he takes command amid three significant dev...

Any word on -- do they have the person who did it? >> well, in this very initial announcement from the coalition in afghanistan, we have no word on that. i can tell you in the past, u.s. forces when they are confronted with these situations generally move very quickly as to afghan forces against attackers. in most cases, the attackers are quickly killed. but we just do not have word at this hour on what has happened in this situation. about 15,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan right now. the u.s. m...

It is the hardest job for commander of forces at combat, just a day into his new assignment, the u.s. commanding general in afghanistan announced a u.s. service member was killed today in what is being described as an insider attack. barbara starr joins us now live from the pentagon. what do we know about the circumstances here? >> hi, jim. very early word coming out of afghanistan that one service member was killed, another wounded in eastern afghanistan in one of these so-called insider attack...

Returned home as satellite images released earlier this week showing the north dismantling missile test site and mike pompeo noting building confidence in north koreas commitments. >> know -- it is happening. we need kim jong un to follow through on commitments he made in singapore. >> reporter: the commanding general vincent brooks, and in a repatriation ceremony wednesday. the journey home and flown to hawaii processing under the defense pow accounting agency and as a reporter who covered the ...