In early April, after Pete Hegseth returned from a trip to Panama, the last person to step off the plane before the defense ...

The question came from Col. Ricky Buria, a former aide to previous Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin who has rapidly established himself as a key member of Hegseth’s inner circle, multiple people ...

The Pentagon on Friday announced four new senior advisers for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following front office infighting that saw the exodus of five senior staff in the past several weeks.

Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell, Patrick Weaver, a special assistant to Hegseth, Ricky Buria, a career Marine who served as a junior military assistant to former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and ...

“This is Lloyd Austin, he is a four-star general. He was the previous secretary of defense. You ever seen him before? No. You know why? He was inside the Pentagon doing his job — he was not on ...

Buria is a career Marine who was one of the only holdovers from the team of former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. A Marine spokesperson confirmed to CNN, however, that Buria submitted his ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sacked the members of a Pentagon advisory board after a fired staffer of his lobbed a critique at them in a Tucker Carlson interview. In a statement Thursday night ...

John McCain and then in the Reagan and Bush White Houses. More recently, under Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, the top spokesman was retired Rear Adm. John Kirby, who later went on to be the State ...