Black troops encouraged Lloyd Austin will fulfill vow to ‘rid our ranks of racists and extremists’
Military service members, like former Marine Corps Major Jason Smedley, have high hopes for Austin’s tenure Jason Smedley remembers the pain of his 2000 attack by lower-ranking Marines during a training exercise he led as a lance corporal at the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton’s School of Infantry. While some held Smedley, the others beat…