The first African American defense secretary was born.
The U.S. Senate passed a bill to ratify Lloyd Austin, who was nominated as the first defense secretary of the Joe Biden administration on the 22nd local time.
Foreign media reported that the Senate overwhelmingly passed the approval of the Austin nominee with 93 votes in favor and two votes against.
A former four-star general, Secretary Austin graduated from West Point in 1975 and served in the military for 41 years, then discharged in 2016.
In 2012, he became the first Deputy Chief of Staff of the Black Army, and inaugurated as the first black Central Commander the following year, where he led operations in Iraq and Syria to fight the Islamic State of extremist terrorist organizations.
President Biden is known to have a strong relationship with President Biden when Austin became the commander of the Iraqi garrison in 2010, when Biden, then vice president, attended the inauguration ceremony in Baghdad in person.
Secretary Austin is known to have worked mainly in Europe and the Middle East and has no special experience in East Asia such as China or Korea.
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