Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

Rexedgar said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. The directive was issued earlier this week, as a government shutdown looms, and months after Hegseth’s team at the Pentagon announced plans to undertake a sweeping consolidation of top military commands.

There are about 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones. Hegseth’s order, people familiar with the matter said, applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. Typically, these officers each oversee hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.


All O-6 and up are required to attend….

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Rexedgar said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. The directive was issued earlier this week, as a government shutdown looms, and months after Hegseth’s team at the Pentagon announced plans to undertake a sweeping consolidation of top military commands.

There are about 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones. Hegseth’s order, people familiar with the matter said, applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. Typically, these officers each oversee hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.


All O-6 and up are required to attend….

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Allan said:

Have I mentioned before that the stupidity is hourly?

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Rexedgar said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/09/25/hegseth-generals-quantico-meeting/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. The directive was issued earlier this week, as a government shutdown looms, and months after Hegseth’s team at the Pentagon announced plans to undertake a sweeping consolidation of top military commands.

There are about 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones. Hegseth’s order, people familiar with the matter said, applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. Typically, these officers each oversee hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.


All O-6 and up are required to attend….

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Grand Mal said:

'Defense Secretary'?
But I thought...

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Callen said:

The situation in the world has gotten more and more dangerous since Trump has taken over and you have a DoD leader who is totally unqualified. The scariest thing is that Trump's amateur hour cabinet seem obsessed with their power....

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BitterPill said:

I hope the meeting is a reprise of that famous meeting in Iraq:


MAGA.

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OrphanSlug said:

My suspicion matches the OP article, I am going with meetings among all of those of rank to let them know some will no longer be needed.

Call it a 'some of you need to retire before we fire you' meeting.

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OrphanSlug said:

My suspicion matches the OP article, I am going with meetings among all of those of rank to let them know some will no longer be needed.

Call it a 'some of you need to retire before we fire you' meeting.

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BitterPill said:

I hope the meeting is a reprise of that famous meeting in Iraq:


MAGA.

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phoenix2020 said:

I thought putting the entirety of our military leadership in one place was bad military doctrine?

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phoenix2020 said:

I thought putting the entirety of our military leadership in one place was bad military doctrine?

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Callen said:

No kidding !!!!

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Callen said:

You don't need them in person , in one room to do that. I think it's something else. Like some radical organizational change. Someone needs to look up the chapter on the military in Project 2025.. The answer is likely there.

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Project 2025 would politicize the military chain of command and U.S. intelligence agencies. It recommends the White House review all senior military general officer and flag officer promotions to ensure they align with domestic political priorities...

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devildavid said:

Must be getting them together for lethality training. Whoever gets out alive keeps their job.

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phoenix2020 said:

I thought putting the entirety of our military leadership in one place was bad military doctrine?

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