![]() Miller, directed Pentagon officials last month to toughen policies and regulations banning extremist activities among troops, and update the Uniform Code of Military Justice to specifically address extremist threats. ![]() ![]() The acting secretary of defense, Christopher C. Austin, she said, “will be in a unique position to head up that effort.”Īlso Read | More Capitol rioters in viral posts arrested, senator urges social media providers to keep data Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and an Iraq War veteran, said in an interview last week. “This needs to be rooted out of our military,” Sen. Now, if he is confirmed as defense secretary, he will have to decide if he will confront the far-right politics that have heightened during four years under Trump. As an Army officer, he has told of how he had to confront troops with Nazi insignia at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and of countless meetings when he was the only person of color in the room. In his 41-year career in the Army before retiring as a four-star general in 2016, Austin witnessed firsthand both the possibilities and the limitations of how the military deals with race. Austin has told of how he had to confront troops with Nazi insignia at Fort Bragg, N.C., when he was an Army officer. Last Tuesday, Milley and the rest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sent an extraordinary letter to all military personnel, reminding them that Biden would soon be their commander in chief and that they were duty bound to defend the Constitution.Īdvertisement Lloyd Austin III, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of defense, speaks to reporters in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. Milley said he saw reports that “people were showing their CAC cards,” a reference to the identification cards used to enter military installations and the Pentagon. Rainey had resigned from her post last year but was not set to leave until this spring. Emily Rainey, an Army officer who told The Associated Press that she had transported 100 people to Washington for the Trump rally, is being investigated by the Army for any connection to the riots, according to a military official. “There was some indication that an unknown number of veterans associated with the insurrection,” he said.Īshli Babbitt, who was shot and killed trying to climb through a door in the Capitol, was an Air Force veteran with a robust social media presence.Īmong the suspects with military ties are Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, another protester at the Capitol, who federal agents say is a neo-Nazi and white supremacist he also is an Army reservist who works - with secret clearance - at a naval weapons station.Ĭapt. Constitution.”įor more than a week now, Milley has listened to analysts, read reports and viewed videos of the riots. He said most active-duty troops and veterans “continue to serve honorably and uphold their oath to protect and defend the U.S. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. “These people are not representative of our country’s military,” Gen. The military’s examination of its ranks marks a new urgency for the Pentagon, which has a history of downplaying the rise of white nationalism and right-wing activism, even as Germany and other countries are finding a deep strain embedded in their armed forces. Another person with military service was shot and killed in the assault. ![]() They include a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel from Texas, an Army officer from North Carolina and an Army reservist from New Jersey. The FBI investigation into the Capitol siege, still in its very early stages, has identified at least six suspects with military links out of the more than 100 people who have been taken into federal custody or the larger number still under investigation.
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