Posted on 09/25/2025 1:53:23 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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. It was issued earlier this week, against the backdrop of a potential government shutdown, and as Hegseth’s overtly political moves have deepened a sense of distress among his opponents who fear that he is erasing the Defense Department’s status as a nonpartisan institution.
In a statement Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell affirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” but he offered no additional details. Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no security concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.
It was not immediately clear whether the White House is involved with the meeting or if President Donald Trump also intends to be there. A spokesperson referred questions to the Pentagon.
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, each of these officers oversees hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.
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I learned a long time ago….always worry about the Colonels. They are the ones who run the coups.
I wonder if they will be giving out prizes to the one who travels the furthest to the party?
Is he warning that Russia is about to get punched in the nose?
Is Trump firing all flag officers?
After 12 years of Obama, the military would likely be better off without the great majority.
“...Hegseth’s overtly political moves...”
Bezos should be rotting in prison for allowing these subversive mutants at the Washington Compost to print this crap opinion as news.
Go to hell Tara Copp, Dan Lamothe, Alex Horton, Ellen Nakashima, Noah Robertson. /quintuple spit
The rumors are that Hegseth is going to force them to fight for their rank as weapons are issued to them all and the doors closed and locked.
As expected from the Washington ComPost. Under Obama and Biden the military leadership was as partisan liberal as it could get and a number of those senior leaders undermined the first Trump administration as well.
Posted in Breaking.
Does anyone read or rely on the Post? Five writers of this story. Why should they reveal the time and location?
The same story from a different source is not a duplicate post.
“Two Men Enter! One Man Leaves!”
All that brass physically in one location?
Just spreading the love. The Moderators seem to be nuking threads.
Turnabout is fair play. So shove it, Bezos.
These generals mostly are experts at fighting the last war. Time to restructure our military, and it should start at the top.
There are thousands of field grade officers capable of leading our forces.
Speaking from personal experience, I was appointed to a job slotted for an O-5 shortly after I was promoted to Captain. LOL, I was still paid as a Captain.
They are ALL being fired for embracing DEI policies, and will be led away in cuffs and leg irons?
3I/Atlas is slowing down and will enter orbit around the Sun.
Maybe ;-)
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