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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was “focused on getting healthcare” when his staff took the initiative to transfer his duties to the Pentagon’s second-in-command, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said at a briefing Monday. The Pentagon released an unclassified summary of its review into the process of transferring command of the Pentagon on Monday after Austin’s undisclosed hospitalization sparked outrage and confusion over who was in charge, finding that Austin’s military assistants made the call to transfer authorities to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks. No mention w…

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