FORT RILEY – The visit by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter to Fort Riley scheduled for Thursday has been canceled, according to officials at Fort Riley. No explanation was provided by the Defense Department.

Currently there are no plans to reschedule the visit.

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FORT RILEY -Defense Secretary Ash Carter is coming to Kansas, according to officials at Fort Riley.

He will be speaking to soldiers about military reforms at Fort Riley on Thursday.

Carter is the nation’s 25th Secretary of Defense.

According to his Defense Department bio, Secretary Carter earned his bachelor’s degrees in physics and in medieval history, summa cum laude, at Yale University, where he was also awarded Phi Beta Kappa; and he received his doctorate in theoretical physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

He was a physics instructor at Oxford, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University and M.I.T., and an experimental research associate at Brookhaven and Fermilab National Laboratories.

Secretary Carter is author or co-author of 11 books and more than 100 articles on physics, technology, national security, and management.