RED-LETTER DAY: The last time a U.S. defense secretary took the podium in the Pentagon briefing room alongside the joint chiefs chairman to face the cameras and take reporters’ questions was exactly one year ago today: Aug. 28, 2018.
That was one of the rare times that notoriously camera-shy Jim Mattis agreed to conduct a formal briefing in the Pentagon’s commodious but lightly used briefing facility.
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