War Secretary Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals Sep 30 in Virginia

[Servus]

Many generals do have tiny SCIFs (Special Compartmented Information Facilities) built into their base quarters where they can "work from home."

I wonder why they do extensive traveling then.

 

[RDKirk]

Are you just pretending you don't know this speech was intended for the American public? Or do you really not get it?

I was just pushing figures around on ChatGPT.

This little boondoggle probably cost from a low of $100,000,000 to a high of $320,000,000.

 

[RDKirk]

I wonder why they do extensive traveling then.

Politics, like this trip. But when they travel about to their own units, it's built into the unit mission and training schedules, so it's very low cost.

The SCIFs in their homes make them available 24/7.

 

[Bradskii]

"I'm pretty sure this could have been a zoom call," Said everyone seated in the room.

Have you listened to the two speeches yet? I'm half way through Hegseth's as I write. I'm already forming an opinion on what he's saying, but that's a civilian's opinion. And I'm pretty certain what is being said will not necessarily be received by the military audience the same way as I'm receiving it.

You're our go-to guy for the military view on these type of matters. So how do you think the brass will take all this? A mighty 'Oo Rah*!' or a lot of rolled eyes.

* I was checking the spelling and now I know that what's said - or shouted, varies on whether you're Marine, Navy or Army. Don't the fly boys have a version..?

 

[RDKirk]

Wow I've seen going way overboard regarding things Trump says to make him out to be Hitler. But this really takes the cake.

I could have been wrong, though. It appears that the audience didn't applaud with very much enthusiasm and Trump had to "encourage" them to applaud more vigorously.

 

[Bradskii]

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I can imagine everyone mingling over coffee later. Something similar to this:

 

[RDKirk]

Have you listened to the two speeches yet? I'm half way through Hegseth's as I write. I'm already forming an opinion on what he's saying, but that's a civilian's opinion. And I'm pretty certain what is being said will not necessarily be received by the military audience the same way as I'm receiving it.

You're our go-to guy for the military view on these type of matters. So how do you think the brass will take all this? A mighty 'Oo Rah*!' or a lot of rolled eyes.

* I was checking the spelling and now I know that what's said - or shouted, varies on whether you're Marine, Navy or Army. Don't the fly boys have a version..?

Army says "Hoo-ah!" Marines say "Ooo-Rah!" Navy says, "Hoo-yah!" Air Force says "Hoo-ah!" like the Army.

 

[RDKirk]

I can imagine everyone mingling over coffee later. Something similar to this:

Indeed, you never hear more "sirs" than in a room full of generals. They are acutely aware even of who has date of rank over others of equal rank.

 

[Nithavela]

Army says "Hoo-ah!" Marines say "Ooo-Rah!" Navy says, "Hoo-yah!" Air Force says "Hoo-ah!" like the Army.

Russians say Urrah. Germans say Hurrah.

It's basically the same thing.

 

[Servus]

I could have been wrong, though. It appears that the audience didn't applaud with very much enthusiasm and Trump had to "encourage" them to applaud more vigorously.

That's not what happened. I'm beginning to wonder if some people on the internet are from an alternate universe. I don't wordship Trump. I'm not a MAGA. But the stuff some people come up with is so wrong I end up defending him.

 

[Servus]

Politics, like this trip. But when they travel about to their own units, it's built into the unit mission and training schedules, so it's very low cost.

The SCIFs in their homes make them available 24/7.

Okay, since some folks are so deeply upset over the cost of this, how much did it add to what's spent on the military annually? 00.1%?

 

[Stopped_lurking]

All in good time. Rome wasn't built in a day.

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AI really delivered lol.

I know this was a joke, and I don't really believe that the US are going to use force to occupy Greenland. How does the US public (the ones of you that are here) see this kind of saber rattling? To me, it's insane that Trump wasn't (isn't?) prepared to take military force off the table with regards to Greenland. When I did my military service the enemy was always attacking from the east (figuratively speaking), having a handgrenade dropped from a drone in my lap in a snowy trench on Greenland beside a dane wasn't part of the plan.

 

[Gene2memE]

Are you just pretending you don't know this speech was intended for the American public? Or do you really not get it?

Really?

The bit about the US being respected because Trump can carefully walk down stairs? That was intended for the American public?

Here's a direct quote from the speech:

"We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day. Every day the guy's falling down stairs. I'm very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs. Like I'm on stairs, like these stairs, I'm very careful. I walk very slowly. You don't have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down but don't, don't bop down the stairs. So one with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs like I've never seen *inaudible* danah, danah, danah bop."

Truly he is a wordsmith.

Or this:

But people, soldiers and I felt embarrassed because there'd be stories about, you know, you couldn't, we couldn't fill up our Army, Navy, Air Force. We couldn't fill them up. And it was headlines. His headlines. It was during Biden's four years, the autopen. I call him the autopen. How would you like to have your thing signed by an autopen?

You know, when I have a General and I have to sign for a General because we have beautiful paper, they're gorgeous paper. I said, throw a little more gold on it. They deserve it. Give me. I want the A paper, not the D paper. We used to sign a piece of garbage. I said, this man is going to be a general, all right. Yeah. I don't want to use this. I want to use the big, beautiful, firm paper. I want to use the real gold writing.

When you talk about the position and they're beautiful and, but how would you like to have that where you, some kid sitting in the back office is having it signed with an autopen? I thought about it and I thought about you people first, admirals, generals, I said, somebody works as his whole life. He gets into maybe the academies or wherever.

But however you got there and you go through years of work and now you become an Admiral or a General or whatever. And when you do, the president of the United States signs your commission, as you know. And that commission is beautifully displayed. And I sign it, actually, I love my signature. I really do. Everyone loves my signature, but i signed it very proudly.

And i always think to myself, how can you have an autopen? Sign this? It's just so disrespectful to me. It's just totally disrespectful. And it turned out that almost everything he did was signed by by autopen, except for when he gave his son Hunter pardon. He signed that one. And that's actually the worst signature I've ever seen. That was a bad. The autopen looks much better.

If this speech was intended for the American public, I guess it really does show just how highly Donald Trump thinks of the public.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Really?

The bit about being the US respected because Trump can carefully walk down stairs. That was intended for the American public?

Here's a direct quote from the speech:

"We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day. Every day the guy's falling down stairs. I'm very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs. Like I'm on stairs, like these stairs, I'm very careful. I walk very slowly. You don't have to set any record. Be cool. Be cool when you walk down but don't, don't bop down the stairs. So one with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs like I've never seen *inaudible* danah, danah, danah bop."

Truly he is a wordsmith.

Or this:

But people, soldiers and I felt embarrassed because there'd be stories about, you know, you couldn't, we couldn't fill up our Army, Navy, Air Force. We couldn't fill them up. And it was headlines. His headlines. It was during Biden's four years, the autopen. I call him the autopen. How would you like to have your thing signed by an autopen?

You know, when I have a General and I have to sign for a General because we have beautiful paper, they're gorgeous paper. I said, throw a little more gold on it. They deserve it. Give me. I want the A paper, not the D paper. We used to sign a piece of garbage. I said, this man is going to be a general, all right. Yeah. I don't want to use this. I want to use the big, beautiful, firm paper. I want to use the real gold writing.

When you talk about the position and they're beautiful and, but how would you like to have that where you, some kid sitting in the back office is having it signed with an autopen? I thought about it and I thought about you people first, admirals, generals, I said, somebody works as his whole life. He gets into maybe the academies or wherever.

But however you got there and you go through years of work and now you become an Admiral or a General or whatever. And when you do, the president of the United States signs your commission, as you know. And that commission is beautifully displayed. And I sign it, actually, I love my signature. I really do. Everyone loves my signature, but i signed it very proudly.

And i always think to myself, how can you have an autopen? Sign this? It's just so disrespectful to me. It's just totally disrespectful. And it turned out that almost everything he did was signed by by autopen, except for when he gave his son Hunter pardon. He signed that one. And that's actually the worst signature I've ever seen. That was a bad. The autopen looks much better.

If this speech was intended for the American public, I guess it really does show just how highly Donald Trump thinks of the public.

I see now why even his fans aren't tuning into this stuff anymore.

Guy just rambles on and on like nobody's business. I don't think anyone could even write a speech like this for him. This is just a flowing stream of (un)counsciousness interspersed with superlatives and self aggrandizement for good measure. I haven't watched not one second of his speech but reading this makes me feel so bad for those generals having to calmly sit there and endure this torture.

 

[RDKirk]

Okay, since some folks are so deeply upset over the cost of this, how much did it add to what's spent on the military annually? 00.1%?

That's what they all say until the end of the fical year.

 

[Servus]

That's what they all say until the end of the fical year.

I didn't make a statement, I asked a question.

 

[Servus]

I know this was a joke, and I don't really believe that the US are going to use force to occupy Greenland. How does the US public (the ones of you that are here) see this kind of saber rattling? To me, it's insane that Trump wasn't (isn't?) prepared to take military force off the table with regards to Greenland. When I did my military service the enemy was always attacking from the east (figuratively speaking), having a handgrenade dropped from a drone in my lap in a snowy trench on Greenland beside a dane wasn't part of the plan.

Some see a strong willed determined president and some see an autocrat dictator madman.

 

[wing2000]

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"I'm pretty sure this could have been a zoom call," Said everyone seated in the room.

OTH, maybe there is some value in seeing how delusional their civilian leadership is in person.

I wonder how many are on-board with fighting the "enemy within"?

 

[wing2000]

Are you just pretending you don't know this speech was intended for the American public? Or do you really not get it?

Oh I get it (as did the officers assembleled in that hall). The CINC wants to use the U.S. military against us.

 

[Stopped_lurking]

Some see a strong willed determined president and some see an autocrat dictator madman.

But do you see his demands for Greenland as justified? If so, why? Denmark have already said that the US is free to expand its military presence on Greenland for military strategic reasons (at the height of the cold war there was ~6000 persons there, nowadays it's counted in the 100s). Implicitly threatening a founding member of NATO is ok anyway?