Washington (United States) (AFP) – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Wednesday that the United States has slashed the number of its generals and admirals by 20 percent, in a move he said is aimed at “accountability.”
Hegseth suggested the cuts targeted officers who failed to get on board with his efforts to ensure the military is focused on war-fighting rather than the “woke” policies of previous administrations, describing the reductions as an “accomplishment.”
“The number-crunchers say we fired 10 percent of the generals and admirals across the force,” Hegseth told troops at the Quantico military base, saying: “We’ve also reduced the overall number of general officer slots by an additional 10 percent.”
“So yes, 20 percent reduction across the board,” he said. “The media calls that a purge. I call it accountability, and long overdue.”
The address to junior officers and enlisted personnel at Quantico came a year after a similar speech to top officers in which Hegseth said the US military was too fat, too focused on leftist “woke” ideas, and in need of major shake-up.
He said Wednesday that top officers who “responded positively” to the previous speech are “leading newly focused and newly empowered and disciplined formations,” while those who did not “no longer work here.”
“We are no longer the woke department, or the weak department,” Hegseth said.
“Simple translation of that: no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors – just tough, ready, committed troops.”
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That’s… Really fucking bad, right? Like, a sign that they are planning a coup.
i.e. get rid of those that will disobey the president come this november.
This is exactly it. They are going to do something BIG. And they don’t want anyone around that even remotely shows a sense of morality or common sense.
Ding ding ding ding
And conveniently make it easy for them to get together and brainstorm.
lol. 10% of generals and 10% of admirals. so thats 20% across the board. I mean what can go wrong with brains like that leading the armed forces.
Uh… No? 10% of category A and 10% of category B is still 10% of both categories together.
eyup. he does say they reduced the slots an additional 10% but that would be just getting rid of the slots he just vacated.
To make things more confusing, he’s not talking about the O-10 ranks of General and Admiral specifically but the category of general and flag officers (GFOs) which are pay grades O-7 through O-10. Navy calls them Rear Admiral (Lower Half), Rear Admiral, Vice Admiral, and Admiral while everybody else calls them Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General, and General. The reductions are being applied to the larger category of all services’ highest-ranking officers. Fired 10%, reduced available positions by another 10% across the GFO ranks.
Not necessarily, if one group is larger than the other it would be either more or less.
10 out of 100 generals and 1 out of 10 admirals would be 5.5% across the board, despite both being 10% individually.
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10+1 = 11
100+10 = 110
11/110 = 0.1
0.1*100 = 10%
Doh, I did 11/200 for some reason 😂
Cool, get rid of all that experience. I’m sure you don’t need any.
That guy is a closeted queer if I ever saw one. Does he not know it’s okay now?
“Simple translation of that: no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals. Just warriors – just tough, ready, committed troops.”
Imagine sending this statement back twenty years…
Imagine reading it forward twenty years in The Rise and the Fall of the American Empire vol. 19.
We’ll be lucky if access to history is so open, by then.
vol. 45 FTFY
Lemme guess, women and African-Americans…
Comrade Hegseth sabotaging the imperial war machine again. Comrade Lenin would be proud.
More like Stalin killing off all the officers who won the Revolution because that nice Hitler fellow agreed to a non aggression pact.
These poor bastards. Commander’s Calls were bad enough; if I was voluntold to listen to this clown, I’d have fucking hanged myself.
Damn lazy fucks cant even have a human write their shitty speeches anymore.
Good make us have zero generals destroy the military.
this is far from good. The ones being cut here are likely the ones that wouldn’t follow an order issued by Trump this November when the Republicans are likely to lose the midterms. These are Generals and Admirals that would likely enforce removing Trump from office if he were to be impeached post midterms. This is the administration solidifying itself with loyal military leaders to ensure the Republicans “win” said midterms.
This isn’t good, this is extremely bad.
