the last person to step off the plane before the defense secretary himself was a colonel wearing slacks and a pullover. This was Ricky Buria, Hegseth’s junior military assistant and one of the ...

with assignment as senior military assistant to the secretary of Defense, Pentagon, Washington, D.C." Short currently serves ...

He’s been a disruptive, mid-level public affairs official in Hegseth’s Pentagon since January 20, when he began working as Acting Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.