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President Trump vowed to immediately remove any military leader he finds unsatisfactory during a major meeting addressing fitness and discipline standards, officials said.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump traveled to Quantico, Virginia to meet with generals and admirals, vowing to fire any military leaders he doesn’t like.
- On just a week's notice, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior commanders at brigadier general or rear admiral lower half and above to report to Quantico, Virginia and said `This speech is about fixing decades of decay, some of it obvious, some of it hidden`.
- Announcing policy changes, Pete Hegseth unveiled 10 new directives tightening physical fitness standards, raising combat-arms benchmarks, and requiring biannual tests for the joint force.
- Democratic Senators Tammy Duckworth and Mazie Hirono warned the meeting raises profound security and cost concerns, with experts citing traffic snarls, a security nightmare, and millions of dollars in expenses.
- Action-first: ordering immediate personnel assessments, Trump recalled three former top officials—Mark Milley, James Mattis, and Mark Esper—and vowed to 'weed out' similar people at Tuesday's meeting.
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The U.S. President is scheduled to speak this Tuesday at an unprecedented high-ranking gathering near Washington. Before him, the Secretary of Defense has castigated years of diversity and inclusion in the U.S. Army.
President Donald Trump doesn't hesitate to fire high-ranking military officers if they do something he doesn't like. He said this before a meeting with top US military officials elsewhere in the country.
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