Lloyd Austin calls for 60-day assessment of extremism within military after Capitol riot

When Lloyd Austin commanded the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg in the mid-1990s, he “missed the mark,” failing to realize that he had skinheads in his ranks who had committed murders off-base. Two decades later, as a civilian defense secretary, he has ordered the service secretaries and military chiefs to conduct a 60-day assessment, or “stand down,” to determine how to root out extremism in the ranks.-- More...