AWOL Austin: National Security Risk

| January 16, 2025


SECDEF Lloyd Austin

Watchdog: Pentagon chief’s secret hospital stay ‘unnecessarily’ risky

By Noah Robertson
A Pentagon watchdog found that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin needlessly risked U.S. national security by not immediately informing Congress and the White House of his hospitalization last January.

“Although we found no adverse consequences to DoD operations arising from how the hospitalizations we reviewed were handled, the risks to our national defense, including the command and control of the DoD’s critical national security operations, were increased unnecessarily,” wrote the Department of Defense inspector general in a new report.

Military Times

I failed to find the term “dereliction of duty” anywhere in the article. Must be buried somewhere in the report and overlooked.

Category: Big Pentagon, Dick Stepping

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Devtun

How many soldiers did Lloyd Austin ship off to the stockade for AWOL? I cannot believe this man wore 4 stars – Impossible.

rgr769

I suspect he received some those stars under Zero because of the color of his skin.

Roh-Dog

We have a SecDef?

I thought that office was turned into the liaison office for a Raytheon rep.

KoB

I failed to find the term “dereliction of duty”…” I also missed that AND the phrase “…hanged by the neck until dead…”. Didn’t see anything along the lines of “aiding and abetting the enemy” either. Hmmm Just my humble opinion (never served under this Rat Bastard, some that did said he was a fairly decent ossifer waaaaaaay back yonder), but I believe his multitudes of “Awww SH*TS!!!” have negated any “attaboys” he ever got.

Instead of DEI, let’s do a DIY project of a backyard Fort, with a thirteen (13) step entrance and a thirteen (13) knot rope swing. (ht2 R-D)

SFC D

Douchebag.

Blaster

And the one prior to him too!!!

Green Thumb

What a turd.

Berliner

Agreed. He was S3 then XO of 2-22 Inf, 10th Mtn and then XO 1st Bde, 10th Mtn… chubby then & rarely seen running or doing PT.

Slow Joe

Why didn’t the President fire his ass?
Oh wait, we don’t have a President. We have a bunch of Millennials making the decisions in the White House, while FJB is on permanent vacation.

rgr769

I don’t know who was making the decisions, but it wasn’t that semi-senile old bastard.

Marine0331

Probably because Barry 0 or Big Mike (whichever was actually calling the shots for Pedo Joe) would not allow it.

2banana

How many thousands did that diversity force out of the military?

A Proud Infidel®™

Better yet, how many thousands of GOOD Servicemembers said “TO HELL with this shit!” when DEI got forced down their throats and got out?

HT3

Well, Joe was MIA for 4 years…just sayin’

A Proud Infidel®™

Just who in the Biden Administration WASN’T a DEI quota?

Fyrfighter

Biden….

Marine0331

Well actually he is too, as he is a Perv, if being a Perv counts as DEI.

SgtM

Lord dark Vader could give a shit about the United States or the Afghan 13 he helped murder.

JTB

Didn’t Earn It….

Anonymous

Thankful he’s gone.

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