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Jan 09, 2024, 11:30 PM IST
According to 2 protection officers, the deputy secretary of protection didn’t even understand that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had been hospitalized when she began taking up a few of his duties on January 2. Until Thursday, three days after the secretary checked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center attributable to problems from an elective surgical procedure, senior leaders, together with Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, the Pentagon’s second-in-command, had been saved at the hours of darkness about Austin’s precise location. As beforehand reported within the information, Austin was hospitalized for 3 days earlier than even the president discovered of it.