{"id":6325,"date":"2025-10-02T23:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2025-10-02T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T23:50:47","slug":"ex-lieutenant-general-slams-trump-fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6325","title":{"rendered":"Ex-lieutenant general slams Trump fo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Generals Called to Virginia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 30, hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals were ordered to an emergency meeting at Quantico, raising fears of cuts or firings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics later said the gathering \u201ccould have been an email\u201d and warned it created \u201can inexcusable strategic risk.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hegseth\u2019s Speech<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Secretary of War Pete Hegseth attacked \u201coverweight generals and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>admirals\u201d and called for ending diversity programs and limiting female soldiers in combat roles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape or in combat units with females who can\u2019t meet the same combat arms physical standards as men,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump\u2019s Address<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donald Trump also spoke, delivering a wide-ranging speech that left the room unsettled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hertling Responds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling blasted the meeting, calling it \u201ca disciplinary approach in public with cameras.\u201d He stressed that military leaders \u201cwill not execute illegal orders\u201d and warned the event embarrassed the services they represent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generals Called to Virginia On September 30, hundreds of U.S. generals and admirals were ordered to an emergency meeting at Quantico, raising fears of cuts or firings. Critics later said the gathering \u201ccould have been an email\u201d and warned it created \u201can inexcusable strategic risk.\u201d Hegseth\u2019s Speech Secretary of War Pete Hegseth attacked \u201coverweight generals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6327,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}