lloyd austin

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Lloyd James Austin III (born ) is a retired United States Army general who served as the 28th United States secretary of defense, from 2021 to 2025, under the Biden administration. Lloyd Austin (born , Mobile, Alabama, U.S.) was the United States secretary of defense (202125). He assumed this position in January 2021, two days after Pres. Joe. 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. Austin was the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense and served on the National Security Council. Mr. Austin was born in Mobile, Alabama, and raised in.