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.

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 selected to highlight the history of the ...

The new Pentagon chief got a look at Guantánamo Bay’s most infamous inmate in his recent visit to the wartime prison.

Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin set up the main international forum for drumming up arms and ammunition for Ukraine in 2022. Over the last three years, around 50 countries have collectively ...

The majority of those on the list are linked to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. One of the people on the list is the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown, CNN reported Thursday ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth followed that by firing ... Jim Mattis and Lloyd Austin — said there were no real justifications for the firings because several of the officers had been nominated ...

To accomplish this goal, not only does the report call for more DEI initiatives, but also notes that under now former Secretary of Defense Austin, the DoD spent $61.7 million in grants to ...

The Defense Department ... the Pentagon and other agencies are usually run by a deputy secretary. The previous deputy under Lloyd Austin, Kath Hicks, has a Ph.D. from MIT and years of experience ...

In November, the administration’s fiscal 2026 proposal was expected to be around $876.8 billion, although then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin recommended boosting it to $926.5 billion.

A spokesperson for FHP confirmed the motorcyclist was taken to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. A 17-year-old girl from Tallahassee passed away late Thursday after ...

Hegseth met Brown briefly at the Army-Navy game, where Brown and then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met for 20 minutes during the second quarter of the game and talked about football. Then on Jan ...

He took over from former Defense secretary Lloyd Austin. The U.S. has said it will continue to participate, but will no longer run the meetings. The initial reaction from Kyiv to the American ...