Washington Headquarters Services Director Thomas Muir swears in Lloyd J. Austin III as secretary of defense, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C., Jan. 22, 2021. (DoD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
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After being confirmed in a nearly unanimous vote by the Senate, Lloyd Austin was quickly sworn in and working at the Pentagon Friday afternoon as President Biden’s Secretary of Defense.
Austin, the retired Army four-star that once headed U.S. Central Command,…