Austin served as the 28th U.S. Secretary of Defense from Jan. 2021 to Jan. 2025. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy.

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III likened the US’ and the Philippines’ relationship to a “family” as he acknowledged the strengthening of the two countries’ alliance in ...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks to cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. CBS News When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, Austin was giving the orders for the lead Army division.

WASHINGTON — Members of Congress and Pentagon leaders were unaware for days that Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III had been hospitalized since Monday, U.S. officials said Saturday, as ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's chief of staff is stepping down, the Pentagon announced Wednesday, five months after Austin and his top aide faced blowback for not telling the White House that he ...

The Republican-led House voted on Wednesday to reduce the salary of Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III to $1, as right-wing lawmakers tried to transform a Pentagon spending bill and a series of ...

THOMASVILLE- Members from across the community gathered at the Ritz Amphitheater on Thursday afternoon for a special homecoming ceremony, welcoming back the Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III, the 28th ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Friday overruled prosecutors and Brig. General Susan Escallier, the Guantánamo military commission’s convening authority, revoking a plea ...

— Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (@SecDef) December 5, 2024. The women on his team “didn’t flinch,” he said, even though the risks to them in some ways were greater than to the men.

“Attending the Armed Forces Farewell Tribute for Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III was an experience I will cherish forever,” he said. “As a 28 year retired Chief Master Sergeant of the United ...

Hegseth will succeed Secretary-General Lloyd Austin III, the nation’s first Black Secretary of Defense, a historic choice made by President Joe Biden in 2021. Austin, 71, is a four-star general ...

THOMASVILLE, Ga. (WCTV) - Former U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III, the nation’s first Black defense secretary, was honored Monday in his hometown of Thomasville with a street renaming.