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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered top admirals and generals worldwide to attend a meeting next week at a Marine Corps base in Virginia.
The order 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.”
From The Washington Post:
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.
The United States has around 800 generals and admirals in the country and around the world.
No one knows the meeting’s agenda. Those who spoke to WaPo cannot remember “a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this.”
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