Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is set to keep his job despite failing to tell Joe Biden he was having surgery and going AWOL for five days.The top official did not tell the White House about a scheduled operation which left him hospitalized at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on New Year's Day following complications.Austin, 70, ranks just below at the top of the chain of command in the US military, and his duties require him being available at a moment's notice.
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