Retired Gen. James Mattis, former secretary of defense, greets members of a honor guard unit before a 2021 ceremony at the Washington State University Tri-Cities campus. Jennifer King/Tri-City ...
Perry, Panetta, Hagel and Austin served under Democratic administrations over the past three decades, while Mattis ... Air Force Vice Chief Gen. James Slife, and the judge advocates general ...
Before he served as President Trump’s first secretary of defense, Gen. James Mattis, as head of U.S. Central Command, testified before Congress in 2013 that “If you don’t fund the State Department ...