Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ... Kelly Magsamen, texted the secretary’s junior military assistant, who was in the hospital with the secretary at the time. In her message, Magsamen urged ...

He went back to the Walter ... He was transferred to the hospital’s intensive care unit, where he couldn’t access the secure communications he would need as defense secretary.

Defense Secretary Austin “unnecessarily” put America’s national security at risk when he made trips to the hospital for cancer treatment that were kept secret from the White House and other high-level ...

Defense Secretary-designate Pete Hegseth confidently ... the primary charge he gave me was — to bring the warrior culture back to the Department of Defense,” Hegseth said in his opening ...

“This is for the troops. For the warriors. For our country,” the defense secretary wrote. “America First. Every day. We will never back down.” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) had wavered in his ...

Pete Hegseth vowed to restore “warrior ethos” to the military Tuesday even as President-elect Trump’s controversial Defense Secretary nominee ... the warrior culture back to the Department ...