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Secretary of Defense

Lloyd J. Austin, from four-star general to the first African-American Secretary of Defense in U.S.

Lloyd J. Austin, from four-star general to the first African-American Secretary of Defense in U.S.

He was a high-performing high school student, but, when he got an academic scholarship to study at the University of Notre Dame as a result of his sterling athletic record, his father was resolute that his son’s true calling was with the military. His father, Lloyd Austin Sr, a postal worker, made him begin his…

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