By Karen List
Dan Lamothe, class of 2004, is a national security reporter at the Washington Post, focusing on the U.S. military and the Pentagon. He has written about the Armed Forces for more than a decade, traveling extensively, embedding with each service and covering combat in Afghanistan numerous times.
Dan says this quote captures his thoughts on reporting: "Unsung, the noblest deed will die," by Pindar.
Dan traveled recently with newly appointed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on the Secretary’s first trip to Asia, visiting Japan, South Korea and India and making a surprise stop in Afghanistan. Here are links to that March 21 story on Austin’s visit as the deadline looms for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, as well as one on U.S. troops coping a year after their base was struck by Iranian missiles and this on one of the Navy’s first Black four-star admirals saying there is work to be done on diversity in the military.