Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks was assuming his duties, the Pentagon said.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin transferred his official duties to his deputy after returning Sunday to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
That statement from Ryder, a major general, indicated that Austin “was retaining the functions and duties of his office,” but a subsequent statement said that Austin had transferred those functions and those duties to Kathleen Hicks, the deputy secretary of Defense.
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