Lloyd Austin focuses inward in first days as Pentagon chief CNN 2/5/2021 By Oren Liebermann, CNN © Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images Retired general Lloyd Austin speaks after being nominated by US President-elect Joe Biden to be US Defense Secretary, at The Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware on December 9, 2020. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo by JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
Lloyd Austin pressed his extended forefinger into the table, a sign the new secretary of defense was serious. He had called a meeting Wednesday with his most senior military leaders to address what he believes are among the most pressing issues facing the country and the armed services: racism and domestic extremism. And as he told the leaders of the military branches in his deliberate, measured pace to get after it, he repeatedly thumped the table with his finger, according to a senior defense official familiar with the call.
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By CAITLIN DOORNBOS | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 2, 2021 The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is headed home to Bremerton, Wash., after an extended deployment in the Middle East, a Navy official told Stars and Stripes by email on Tuesday. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin over the weekend called the carrier and its strike group home, according to a Monday report by U.S. Naval Institute News. The Nimitz was conducting flight operations in the Arabian Sea as of last week, according to Navy photos published online Wednesday. On Monday, it was operating “west of India,” according to USNI News. On New Year’s Eve, then-Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller ordered the ship home from the Middle East. But he reversed that decision four days later, citing Iranian threats of “severe revenge” a year after the United States killed Iran’s leading military commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, in a Baghdad drone strike Jan. 3, 2020.