1975 - Austin is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army upon graduation from West Point. Over the next 20 years, he holds a number of leadership positions and is stationed at bases in North Carolina, Indianapolis, New York, Germany and Panama. 1997-1999 - Commander, 3rd Brigade of the 82nd Airborne, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

The secrecy surrounding Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s hospitalizations in late 2023 and early 2024 “increased unnecessarily” the risks to US national security, the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded in a report released on Wednesday.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is bidding farewell to the forces and personnel he's led through a tumultuous term.

Lloyd Austin served as President Joe Biden's Secretary of Defense, and this is everything that we know about his wife of decades, Charlene Austin.

The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report about Defense Secretary Austin’s failure to quickly disclose his hospitalization in early 2024.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was hospitalized for two weeks at the start of 2024 for complications arising from surgery to treat prostate cancer.

The Pentagon’s watchdog, in a highly critical report released Wednesday, faults Austin for the communications failures early last year.

The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General found that Secretary Lloyd Austin's secret hospitalizations "unnecessarily" put America's national security at higher risk.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s hospitalization scandal last year increased national security risks and should have been handled better, according to a new report from the Pentagon’s

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin bid farewell Friday to the forces and personnel he has led through a tumultuous term that had three major military crises, a global pandemic and a personal brush with cancer that became a flashpoint for the way it was mishandled.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell in a speech Friday morning, just days before President-elect Trump is set to return to the White House. During his four years helming the Pentagon,

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon Inspector General released a scathing report Wednesday about Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s failure to alert the White House and his senior staff about his ...