Panic Seizes Pentagon As Hegseth Calls
No-Notice, No-Agenda Meeting of All Generals
in Command Billets
RedState,
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Original Article
Posted By: ConservativeYankee,
9/25/2025 4:20:54 PM
Something's up! Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has ordered all top U.S. military commanders, worldwide, to convene at Quantico Marine Corps Base next week for a no-notice meeting with no published agenda. To call this unprecedented might be an understatement. The order covers about 800 general officers and admirals, and each of the attendees is directed to bring their senior enlisted adviser with them; “All general officers in command in grade O-7 through O-10 and their general officer senior enlisted advisers are directed to attend within operational constraints.”
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Security has to be far better than it has been for a Trump rally!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 9/25/2025 4:43:32 PM (No. 2008962)
Sounds like a "come to Jesus" meeting to me.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 9/25/2025 4:48:24 PM (No. 2008964)
He has said he wants to be rid of 20% of the flag rank folks. Time to sweat if you are DEI admiral or general. And their "general officer senior enlisted advisors"....I guess this is Command Master Sergeants and the USN equivelant, Command Chief Petty Officers.
Smart move, if the top enlisted folks are DEI hires, too.....time to give them a shove out the retirement door.
Sic'em, Pete.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
6079 Smith, W 9/25/2025 4:49:25 PM (No. 2008965)
He is Secretary of Defense not Secretary of War.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chumley 9/25/2025 5:12:17 PM (No. 2008969)
I had no idea those sorts of things were going on. Maybe he's going to fire all the commanders and put the super E-9s in their place? Nah. They are just rubber chicken dinner politicians too.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
dbdiva 9/25/2025 5:41:03 PM (No. 2008981)
#4, I believe PDJT has renamed the DoD to be the Department of War; that being the case Pete Hegseth's title would change accordingly.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Californian 9/25/2025 6:10:07 PM (No. 2008994)
"Everyone check for a card under your assigned seat and stand up holding it. If your card is green, sit back down. If your card is red, exit to the parking lot and enter one of the buses that will take you to another location to get your last check. Meeting adjourned".
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JimBob 9/25/2025 6:16:34 PM (No. 2008997)
Whatever happens, it sounds to me like Hegseth putting out the notice to attend has 'lit a fire in a lot of backside orifices'.
I hope something good comes from the meeting.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Scribelus 9/25/2025 6:28:04 PM (No. 2009003)
Attention, Shredders!
Prepare to shred!
On my command, Shred!
Shred!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Vaquero45 9/25/2025 6:42:33 PM (No. 2009007)
Oh, this is gonna be good….
My bet is that Hegseth and his minions have already decided whose heads will roll. There will be a big meeting where Pete will lay down the law, after which about every 5th general/admiral will be called out of the room, never to return. Make no mistake: this is a housecleaning.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 9/25/2025 7:32:10 PM (No. 2009024)
This is what it sounds like when a bunch of high ranking sphincters tighten up and slam shut!!
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I'm with #2 & #10. Some well-deserved butt kickings and forced retirements. Sounds like a new CO for each service's JAG corps is also needed.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Geoman 9/25/2025 8:08:43 PM (No. 2009039)
The senior-most enlisted rank in the Navy is Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy and his counterparts in the Marines, Army, and Air Force are Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, Sergeant Major of the Army, and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force. They all hold a special pay grade above E-9. Command Sergeant Majors in the Army, all E-9s, are rather numerous, as each 'color bearing Army unit (battalion or higher) has a Command Sergeant Major. Hegseth may wish to reduce the number of CSMs to keep the E-9 rank from being too watered down.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/25/2025 8:18:50 PM (No. 2009043)
I think #13 is correct but I would guess that some Flags are also sweating.
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I wrote to the SoW several weeks ago telling him that I was alarmed by the number of overweight and out of shape officers ( such as Gem Miilley) that I have seen. Perhaps he is taking my advice to have them all weighed by medical officers and administered a PFT.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
thefield 9/25/2025 9:41:55 PM (No. 2009058)
All the conservative networks say, Department of War. Couple of Generals are safe. The Trump team just got them approved by congress.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Ketchuplover 9/25/2025 10:18:48 PM (No. 2009061)
Sounds like a "Red Wedding" invitation to me.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
cThree 9/25/2025 11:00:30 PM (No. 2009066)
In Trump's first term, the Deep State smugly went about their business, undermining his efforts at every turn.
Trump learned, and I think he's passing on his wisdom of experience to Hegseth.
Sure enough, Hegseth gave the orders, and the Deep State in the military smugly went about undercutting him at every turn.
I fervently hope he gets a handle on it, and a purge of about 20% sounds like the perfect opportunity.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
kono 9/26/2025 1:02:23 AM (No. 2009081)
Well, he did say he would be thinning the command positions. This would seem to be heading in that direction.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/26/2025 6:48:26 AM (No. 2009148)
I'll be curious to see what the racial mix is.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
petrichor 9/26/2025 7:14:45 AM (No. 2009153)
It will make Pete's job easier just by letting the generals form their sub-groups. The dissidents will be asked to stand outside.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Falconer 9/26/2025 7:20:50 AM (No. 2009156)
A thorough house cleaning of the military is needed. This sounds like it could be a good start of that process.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Msquared112 9/26/2025 8:06:24 AM (No. 2009180)
Pink slips?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Msquared112 9/26/2025 8:06:54 AM (No. 2009182)
#4, not any more.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Msquared112 9/26/2025 8:08:12 AM (No. 2009183)
Get rid of all vestiges of DEI and trans. That's step one. After that, you probably don't need a Step Two.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
starsNstripes 9/26/2025 8:13:00 AM (No. 2009186)
As a former USAF officer, man I'd love to be Pete right now. Mow 'em down Pete! While you are at it, find the guy that designed the hideous Space Force uniforms and fire him too! haha
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
LLAMA 9/26/2025 8:40:23 AM (No. 2009194)
No doubt there are way too many O-7 - O-10s on active duty. The ratio of Generals Officers to officers below that rank is probably higher than it has ever been; certainly much higher than existed in WW2. Sounds like a RIF is eminent.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
franq 9/26/2025 9:10:11 AM (No. 2009208)
Time for "Bob and Bob" to ask each one, "So briefly describe exactly what it is you DO here..."
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
tootall 9/26/2025 9:42:15 AM (No. 2009229)
They should start the morning with mandatory PT and film it for release
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/26/2025 10:04:41 AM (No. 2009245)
All the Generals/Admirals know a Reconning is staring them in the face. I predict there will be a massive culling of the Commie Hoard!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
happywarrior 9/26/2025 10:09:00 AM (No. 2009248)
Hopefully during this meeting, he will address the hundreds, if not thousands, of X, fakebook, tiktok, and instagram posts reported to the DOW of soldiers who have been celebrating like ghouls over Charlie Kirk's death, the vast majority of them in uniform. I myself have reported well over a hundred. People are crying that soldiers also have free speech, but those leftist fools have never served and have never read the UCMJ.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/26/2025 11:59:59 AM (No. 2009324)
There are more Flag Rank Officers in the military today than at the end of WWII, yet with far fewer Enlisted than back then. It’s time for “Right-Sizing” the military AND the Pentagon civilian corps.
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