Recuperating Austin gets Walter Reed briefing amid furor over unrevealed absence
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Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Erik Kurilla, the commander of U.S. Central Command, briefed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on Wednesday at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where the Pentagon chief is recuperating from complications resulting from his prostate cancer treatment.