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SecDef Lloyd Austin Was AWOL For Three Days
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SecDef Lloyd Austin Was AWOL For Three Days

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Jan 18, 2024
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd James Austin III needed his cancerous prostate removed and then developed an infection that reached his urinary tract, an emergency requiring further hospitalization. Austin is known as taciturn and private. Perhaps proper disclosure would have been humiliating for him but this is no excuse. Efforts to conceal his condition — …

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