Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals and admirals to a base in northern Virginia for a sudden meeting next week.

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.

  • nearhat@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
    241·
    3 days ago

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

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      3 days 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.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipMEnglish
    18·
    3 days ago

    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.

    • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

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

      • F_State@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

        • Ŝan@piefed.zipEnglish
          2·
          1 day ago

          Oh, I was just giving þe traditional coping mechanism. I agree on all points.

  • TarantulaFudge@piefed.zipEnglish
    63·
    3 days ago

    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.