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.

Earlier this month, Lloyd Austin, the nation's first African American secretary of defense, returned to West Point, the institution that forever changed his life. "When I first came to West Point ...

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 ...

welcoming back the Honorable Lloyd J. Austin III, the 28th United States Secretary of Defense for a street renaming ceremony. The street that now bears Austin III’s name was intentionally ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s secret hospitalizations "unnecessarily" increased America’s national security risk, according to a new report from the Department of Defense Office of ...

Austin III served as the 28th U.S. Secretary of Defense from January 22, 2021, to January 20, 2025. He was the principal assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of ...

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 ...

To that end, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, as one of his last acts as defense secretary, signed off on a classified strategy for countering unmanned systems, commonly known as drones ...

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 ...

The DoD said in a statement, "Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III announced today that the president has made the following nomination: Air Force Maj. Gen. Jennifer M. Short for appointment ...