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(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) During his confirmation hearings, Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) nominee Lloyd Austin said that he would make it his priority to combat racism and extremism in the US military. He has been true to his word. On February 5, 2021, he directed unit commanders and supervisors at all levels to conduct a leadership “stand down” to address the issues of extremist ideology in the Department of Defense. Stand-down training materials to guide the process were subsequently released on February 26. Here are a couple of noteworthy excerpts (emphasis added): The vast majority of the men and women in the United States military and those who serve the Department of Defense as civilian employees perform their duties and responsibilities with integrity, and do not support racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists, including ....
I was notified of Lloyd Austin’s nomination as Defense secretary in a flurry of excited text messages from other Black West Point graduates Monday night. For so many of us, his nomination signified that yes, we have to work twice as hard, but at least it is rewarded when it counts. I met Austin at the Thayer Hotel, a gothic-style 1925 building outside the gates of West Point. Lloyd Austin is West Point Class of 1975 and I am Class of 2013. At the time of our meeting, I was an admissions officer trying to convince the brightest Black students in the country that they should become members of the West Point Class of 2023. ....