The Gateway Pundit reported that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered all of the US’s top military commanders to gather at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, next week.
Hegseth convened the meeting on short notice and without giving the military commanders a reason leading to speculation about the motives behind the meeting.
“People are very concerned,” a source told the Washington Post. “They have no idea what it means.”
The Washington Post reported:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice – and without a stated reason – at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.
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. The directive was issued earlier this week, as a government shutdown looms, and months after Hegseth’s team at the Pentagon announced plans to undertake a sweeping consolidation of top military commands.
As speculation about the meeting continues to unfold, Army Special Forces veteran Steven Bucci told The Daily Signal the meeting may be simply “to roll out/explain some new strategic areas of focus or rearrangement of strategic priorities.”
Additionally, a White House official told CNN, “It’s meant to be a show of force of what the new military now looks like under the president.”
The meeting is expected to resemble “a pep rally” where Hegseth will underscore the importance of the “warrior ethos” and outline a new vision for the US military, said three of the sources. He is expected to discuss new readiness, fitness and grooming standards the officers are expected to adhere to and enforce.
“It’s about getting the horses into the stable and whipping them into shape,” said a defense official familiar with the planning.
“And the guys with the stars on their shoulders make for a better audience from an optics standpoint. This is a showcase for Hegseth to tell them: get on board, or potentially have your career shortened.”
The official added that Hegseth’s team is planning on recording his speech and releasing it publicly later.
New: Hegseth summoned top officers to Virginia to deliver a speech about the “warrior ethos” & outline a new vision for the US military, sources say. He’s also expected to discuss new readiness, fitness and grooming standards. Plan is to record it and post it to his socials later…
— Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) September 26, 2025
Secretary Hegseth has made it clear that the Trump administration is focused on restoring America’s military to a fighting force.
In January, President Trump signed the “Restoring America’s Fighting Force” executive order and the “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” executive orders, which direct every element of the U.S. military to “operate free from any preference based on race or sex” and root out gender insanity and made up pronoun usage, respectively.
Trump’s “Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness” calls for the military to have a “singular focus on developing the requisite warrior ethos.” The order states, “The pursuit of military excellence cannot be diluted to accommodate political agendas or other ideologies harmful to unit cohesion.”
“Recently, however, the Armed Forces have been afflicted with radical gender ideology to appease activists unconcerned with the requirements of military service like physical and mental health, selflessness, and unit cohesion.”
The order continues, “Consistent with the military mission and longstanding DoD policy, expressing a false “gender identity” divergent from an individual’s sex cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary for military service. Beyond the hormonal and surgical medical interventions involved, adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life. A man’s assertion that he is a woman, and his requirement that others honor this falsehood, is not consistent with the humility and selflessness required of a service member.”
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