WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned the military’s top officers — hundreds of generals and admirals — to a base in northern Virginia for a sudden meeting next week, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The directive did not offer a reason for the gathering Tuesday of senior commanders of the one-star rank or higher and their top advisers at the Marine Corps base in Quantico. The people, who described the move as unusual, were not authorized to publicly discuss the sensitive plans and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The Pentagon’s top spokesman, Sean Parnell, confirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week.”

Across the military, there are 800 generals and admirals of all ranks. Many command thousands of service members and are stationed across the world in more than a dozen countries and time zones.

The meeting, first reported by The Washington Post, comes on the heels of several unusual and unexplained actions that Hegseth has taken involving military leaders.

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[–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can't imagine how career military officers let alone enlisted feel when they have to answer to this buffoon. This alcoholic domestic abuser represents everything they hate yet they are forced to show respect to him.

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    You respect þe rank (or in þis case, þe office), not þe person. It's þe traditional way to manage.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Traditionally, sure. But in the past the Defense Secretary didn't scream at flag officers and generally treat them like shit in their presence. Or, ya know, be unquestioningly loyal to a president collapsing the republic into a fascist dictatorship. I don't think most US generals/admirals truly cared much about the oath they took but they did take it and I will criticize them for breaking it.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fearing this is a loyalty test, or worse, a ruse for a Zionist Occupation Regime attack on Iran.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I'm fearing that this is a trap to decapitate military command entirely to install sycophants.

    I'm fearing that this is an order to use the military on the citizens of the US.

    I'm fearing that this is preparations for a disaster so large that if it isn't a nuclear strike somewhere, then it might result in one or may as well be.

    Edit: Nope it was just them embarrassing themselves again.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Oh boy, I can't wait to see the next leaked Signal messages.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Well, it must not be that important if he’s going to wait a whole week.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Woah okay this seems really bad. Nothing good can come from gathering of all these high level people in one place. I would be very nervous to be any of these people. I see Putin taking advantage of this.

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I'm guessing loyalty test with a possible consolidation of thought towards the Americas rather than Asia and Europe. What in the Americas is so urgent? I guess drugs but that's seems more a US problem than Latin America but they can posture more cheaply in closer waters. Any excuse to have an enemy but not one too expensive and dangerous to maintain position against

    I think Trump and Hesgeth care most about image and an aggressive position in Europe or Asia is increasingly risky. I don't think either want to be the ones in charge when a carrier is destroyed and instead of 4000 American soldiers dead in 20 years, it's 4000 in a single day and numerous of those day

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Hundreds of generals and admirals in one location? I'm sorry, what?

    Yeah... Might want to call out sick that day.

    As The Atlantic reported just the other day, Trump is rushing everyone to accelerate their Russian plan toward authoritarianism because the bottom is beginning to fall out.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My guess is Hegseth is going to wake up tomorrow and the first thought in his head will be, "Oh vodka. What did you make me do this time?"

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    He is throwing a kegger.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    No good can come of this. Living in the Fallout timeline keeps getting worse and worse

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They have declared antifa a domestic enemy.

    The purge won't only be the top brass.

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