Lloyd Austin admitted to ICU – meet Kathleen Hicks who takes over the functions and duties of defence chief

From here:

US defence chief Lloyd Austin ‘admitted to critical care unit’: Pentagon - World - DAWN.COM

“US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has been admitted to the critical care unit as he undergoes treatment for a bladder issue, the Pentagon said late on Sunday, in a statement citing his doctors.”

Maybe it’s cancer – maybe it’s the same as King Charles III?

If bladder cancer there is this sort of prognosis:

Bladder Cancer Prognosis and Survival Rates - NCI

“The prognosis for bladder cancer depends on many factors:

the stage of the cancer, including whether the cancer

·        has not reached the muscle wall of the bladder (called non-muscle-invasive or superficial bladder cancer) or

·        has spread through the inner lining of the bladder and into the muscle wall of the bladder or beyond it (called muscle-invasive bladder cancer or invasive bladder cancer)

·        the type of bladder cancer

·        whether the cancer is low grade or high grade

·        the patient’s age and general health

For non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, prognosis also depends on whether

·        there are many tumors or large tumors

·        the cancer has grown into the connective tissue next to the lining of the bladder

·        the cancer has come back after treatment

Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer can often be cured.

The 5-year relative survival rates for bladder cancer are as follows:

·        97% for carcinoma in situ of the bladder alone (abnormal cells found in the tissue lining the inside of the bladder)

·        71% for localized bladder cancer (cancer is in the bladder only)

·        39% for regional bladder cancer (cancer has spread beyond the bladder to nearby lymph nodes or organs)

·        8% for metastatic bladder cancer (cancer has spread beyond the bladder to a distant part of the body)

One can hope for his sake that it is not metastatic – though I expect that military personnel that families of those that have died of those alive that have been damaged by injection mandates are not sympathetic. I wonder if it has anything to do with any injections of experimental mRNA C19 spike venom injections,

Anyway, here’s the temporary Secretary of Defence – Kathleen Hicks – maybe “acting” is more appropriate term.

No glass ceiling here for being in command of the US military, under the Commander in Chief.

Wiki has this: Kathleen Hicks - Wikipedia

“Kathleen Anne Holland Hicks[1][2] (born September 25, 1970)[1][3] is an American government official who has served as the United States deputy secretary of defense since 2021.

She is the first Senate-confirmed woman in this role and is the highest ranking woman currently serving in the United States Department of Defense.

Hicks previously served as the principal deputy under secretary of defense for policy during the Obama administration.[4]

By 2020 Hicks was an academic and national security advisor working as a senior vice president and director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.[5].”

There is this snippet following an interview she had with Jon Stewart.

“Laura Seligman of Politico wrote of the exchange, "One potential hurdle for Hicks is the bad press from an interview with Jon Stewart, [who] ripped military spending as “corruption” and Hicks came off looking defensive".[25]”

Doesn’t look what I imagine Boadicea would look!

Onwards!

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