Thunderous applause from the Generals at Quantico meeting, NOT!
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What an excellent speech... going back to the dept roots....to win wars and an effective military..
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Trump was at the meeting and gave his speech
....shows his commitment ro leading from the front...and supporting his military..
....shows his commitment ro leading from the front...and supporting his military..
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these types of dei recruits are useless in combat but can help clean vehicles and replenish ammo in the rear. and eat less and shape up more.
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Singkies equivalent to down graded recruits?
Or the yanks equivalent to McNamara's Morons? More trouble than they are worth. And cause the deaths of their fellow soldiers...it's also equivalent to going to going to work n baby sitting the slacker
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US army had only a handful. Of generals in WWII.
But today, it can fill up a hall.
But today, it can fill up a hall.
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problem is recruitment is tough when more young men are getting addicted to opioids and dying from fentanyl. kids from wealthier families enrol in college and obtain higher degrees thus staying in universities longer. to meet recruitment quotas for all 5 branches recruiters welcum all kinds of unfit recruits hoping boot camp will train them to fighting shape. unfortunately some are so out of shape they need ozempic to trim them down, especially fat nigger chicks with big arses.
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Use more tech to reduce falling recruitment..AI, Drones, robots, T-800 etc...but yanks will get fitter as RFK Jnr is improving food quality. ... Mean n lean...
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Absolutely no one clapped. Looks like US military leaders are not MAGA. Instead, they flipped the bird at Hegseth and Trump.
You obviously missed the whole point of the meeting. The reason why there was very little applause is because 90% of those armchair generals are no better fat slob faggots and this is what they got to hear from the Secretary of WAR!
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If the Flag officers are not happy. With the speechand the direction of the war dept..they can FO...
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Tell that to napolean.generals dont do the fighting.
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‘Could have been an email’: Officials balk at Hegseth's generals meeting
The last-minute gathering featured hundreds of senior military officials, who swear an oath to the Constitution, attending something more akin to a campaign rally.
President Donald Trump is greeted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth before speaking to a gathering of top U.S. military commanderson Sept. 30, 2025, in Quantico, Va. | Evan Vucci/AP
By Jack Detsch and Leo Shane III09/30/2025 03:03 PM EDTUpdated: 09/30/2025 08:04 PM EDT
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s speech to top generals was supposed to serve as a rallying cry for military exceptionalism — but it didn’t land that way with many of the people it was targeting.
Numerous defense officials — who watched senior brass scramble to Washington and then sit through a partisan speech from President Donald Trump and a return to old-school military standards by Hegseth — were left wondering why the event had occurred at all.
“More like a press conference than briefing the generals,” said one defense official, who, like others, was granted anonymity due to fears of retribution. “Could have been an email.”
Defense officials, in the Pentagon and at bases around the world, spent much of Tuesday trying to make sense of the last-minute gathering at the Quantico base in Virginia. Hegseth called out “fat generals,” and, separately, pushed fitness standards that could limit women in combat roles, while Trump offered his justification for sending the military into American cities.
The 90-minute event — which featured military officials who swore an oath to the Constitution attending something more akin to a campaign rally — had the feeling of a Hollywood production. Trump even instructed officials to “just have a good time.”
The meeting took place hours before a likely government shutdown, and struck some officials as a distraction that threatens to shift the military’s focus away from foreign threats toward an unprecedented domestic role.
“Not quite a loyalty test, but … on the spectrum of loyalty to ideology,” said a second defense official. “Total waste of money.”
Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. Dan Caine suggested Russian and Chinese officials would worry that hundreds of American generals and admirals had gathered together. But some current and former defense officials instead feared the security risk of sticking almost all of America’s top officers in the same room. And they dismissed Hegseth’s effort to bolster the military’s aggressive image through grooming standards and ending diversity programs.
“It‘s a waste of time for a lot of people who emphatically had better things they could and should be doing,” said a former senior defense official. “It’s also an inexcusable strategic risk to concentrate so many leaders in the operational chain of command in the same publicly known time and place, to convey an inane message of little merit.”
Some officials spent their time doing back-of-the-envelope math on ChatGPT to figure out how much the spectacle cost. Others across bases chose to avoid watching entirely.
“At this point, I am averting my eyes,” said a third defense official.
The Defense Department, which Trump has rebranded the Department of War, argued the event boosted morale and empowered military leaders. “The war on warriors is over,” Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement. “Political correctness has no home at the Department of War. Today’s address cements a new but familiar culture we refer to as the warrior ethos and postures the department toward a new era of peace though strength.“
Hegseth’s order that military commanders uphold physical fitness standards elicited jokes from prospective Democratic presidential candidates like California Gov. Gavin Newsom — who publicly doubted whether Trump, the commander-in-chief, would qualify for his job under the new rules.
But both within the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill, people voiced worries about Hegseth’s remark that rules of engagement designed to protect civilians were “stupid” and Trump’s suggestion that the Pentagon would form quick reaction forces to quell upheaval in American cities.
“Deploying U.S. troops against U.S. citizens in American cities isn’t just unprecedented and unconstitutional — it’s UNAMERICAN,” Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), an Army veteran who served in Iraq, posted on X. “Every freedom-loving American Patriot, regardless of their political party, must speak up NOW.”
Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) reiterated her call for Hegseth to resign after the meeting, saying the Pentagon chief “embodies dangerous views that undermine our military’s efficacy, lethality and readiness.”
The Pentagon has insisted the U.S. military is retooling to prepare for a potential war with China. But sending American troops to patrol their own cities will “distract warfighters from actually training to fight and win” against Beijing, said a fourth defense official.
Several Trump allies, including Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), said a face-to-face meeting like Hegseth’s helped reinforce the administration’s visions. “There needs to be more warfighter training,” he said in an interview. “We don’t do enough of it. We don’t do enough flying training. I like this approach … I thought it was a strong speech.”
Democrats, on the other hand, attacked the event as purely vanity-driven.
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) called the resources used for the meeting “totally unjustified” and an exercise in chest thumping. “This comes at the expense of real national security,” she said in an interview. “But obviously they don’t give a rip.”
Audrey Decker and Joe Gould contributed to this report.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/hegseth-meeting-pushback-00588181
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Wasn't Clinton? George Bush Jnr, Obama draft Dodgers too? N did alamak serve?Balls lah. You are talking about a 5-time draft dodger. Support kee lan lah.
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