This was announced by US Defense Secretary Ash Carter

US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter transferred. He began his career as a military man and later went to various functions in the Ministry of Defense and the Pentagon. Ash Carter served as Secretary of Defense from 2009 to 2011 when President Obama served as Secretary of Defense from 2015 to 2017.

Carter werd het vooral bekend door het openstellen van alle militaire functions in de strijdkrachten voor vrouwen. Dat maakte ook de weg vrij voor partikalati aan gewärkliche gewächtmissies. Ook maakte Carter een einde aan het verbod op toetreding van transgender personen. In 2017, President Trump issued a statement expressing his criticism.

Carter was Belfer’s head of science and international affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School. Ash Carter was 68 years old.