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Austin announced another $1 billion military aid package for Ukraine, following the third meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

Several Republican lawmakers are seeking to reinstate service members discharged from the military solely over their non-compliance with the vaccine mandate and prevent further discharges for troops not complying with it.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall admitted to Rep. Matt Gaetz that the United States is behind China in hypersonic missile development.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday mocked the visit to Ukraine by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, needling the Biden administration for staging political theatrics while offering “nothing significant to completely change the situation.”

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin did not say whether rooting out “extremism” in the military is still a top priority for him under questioning at a hearing this week.

As the military world broadens in scale and increases in complexity due to the speed of technological advances, the U.S. Navy wants to scrap 24 ships, including five cruisers and a pair of Los Angeles-class submarines.

Austin inadvertently agreed that the U.S. sharing intelligence with China on Russia was bad, despite Biden staffers doing exactly that.

Fresh off his tense exchange with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) reiterated his stance against the expansion of so-called “wokeism” within the U.S. military under the supervision of the Biden administration.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley downplayed the effect of kicking out troops from the military for not complying with the Biden administration’s military vaccine mandate, even amid threats from China and Russia and recruiting difficulties in the Army.

Austin on Tuesday admitted that one of the Biden administration’s goals was to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine.

Gaetz grilled Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on military wokeness, prompting a fiery exchange between the two during a hearing on Tuesday.

A federal district courtgranted a motion that would treat all sailors with religious objections to Biden’s Pentagon vaccine mandate as part of a single class in a lawsuit brought against the agency by First Liberty on behalf of 35 Navy SEALs.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin sai Mo Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that there will be a “significant reaction” if Russia uses chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine.

On Tuesday morning, 36 airmen in the active-duty Air Force, the Air Force Reserve, and the Air National Guard filled a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Omaha, Nebraska, challenging the legality of President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate on service members.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved the extension of the mobilization of the National Guard in the nation’s capital amid a trucker convoy circling the district.

An effective American president would increase U.S. energy, thereby reducing the funds Putin is using to kill Ukrainians. But while Russia is waging a hot war in Ukraine, the Democrats are more interested in waging World War E.

The military has discharged nearly 1,500 service members over the Biden administration’s military vaccine mandate.

Waltz said stinger missiles from the U.S. did not start arriving to Ukraine until a week ago, despite Ukrianians asking for them months ago.

A court denied a Navy petition to stay an injunction preventing the DOD from punishing SEALs for their objections to the vaccine mandate.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of approximately 7,000 additional troops to Europe amid a Russian war with Ukraine.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has authorized an order to mobilize as many as 700 D.C. National Guard members ahead of an upcoming trucker convoy to the nation’s capital.

Canadian service members taking part or voicing support for the trucker protests against vaccine mandates are being investigated, according to a Canadian news outlet.

A German journalist became the most recent journalist to ask the Biden Administration for evidence to back up its claims on Russia.

The U.S. Army published a report earlier this week on how it will deal with “global disruptions” from so-called climate change.

Austin has ordered an additional 3,000 American troops to Poland amid a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Pentagon leaders insisted it would be prepared for an evacuation of Americans out of Ukraine if called to do so.

Austin has put 8,500 American troops on “heightened alert” in case they need to deploy as part of a NATO readiness force.

Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger has tested positive for the coronavirus, his spokesperson said in a statement on Monday afternoon.

The nation’s top military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley, tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday. He is now isolating at a remote location, his spokesperson said Monday morning.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is expected to testify next week on events surrounding the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The Pentagon is discussing “options” with the Department of Justice after a court ordered an injunction against its vaccine mandate.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Sunday evening he tested positive for the coronavirus earlier that day, despite receiving two vaccine doses and a booster shot.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group to stay in the Mediterranean Sea region rather than move on to the Middle East, amid worries about the buildup of thousands of Russian troops near the Ukraine border.

A year-long Pentagon effort to identify extremists in the military found “fewer than 100” service members out of a 2.1 million force.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, slamming him for discharging service members who have not obeyed his “ambiguous” vaccine mandate.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Tuesday that a booster shot requirement was “under active discussion” at the Pentagon.