America has 800 generals and admirals???? WTH !!!

Photo above - recent conclave of RUSSIAN generals. They apparently have more medals than their Pentagon counterparts, but worse dental coverage. Stay away from those hotel windows, guys . . .

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned 800 generals admirals to Virginia for an impromptu meeting. I don’t know if 800 is “all of them”, but it’s a lot. I’ve been asking the government to consider closing or merging some of America’s 800 military bases worldwide. Now it appears that we have more than 1 general per base.

I was certain this was the most generals ever, but Google says there were 1,500 during World War 2. Google can’t tell for sure, however, because of promotions, demotions, retirements, and MIA. But that was wartime. Are we officially at war with anyone right now? Other than Washington DC and Los Angeles, mean. Is there a national guard general in DC overseeing the troops collecting trash there?

Each general travelling to Virginia will be accompanied by at least 1 senior advisor and several more aides. The total number of guests could exceed 3,000 . . . easily.

Defense Secretary Hegseth is no stranger to military service himself. He was (for approximately 11 months) a national guard reservist tasked with overseeing the care and feeding of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. So this has GOTTA be the thrill of a lifetime for him to summon and browbeat all the guys who were ever above him in the chain of command. If he has time, Hegseth should also take the wheel of an Abrams tank or Humvee, just for the fun of it.

Rumors are rampant that Hegseth plans to fire (or offer early retirement) to at least 100 generals. But we would still have at least 700 on standby, so I don’t think this materially weakens America’s security. In fact, knowing how the military works, I bet that about 30 seconds after those generals start packing their footlockers, a bunch of colonels start getting promoted to general, and majors get bumped up to colonel, etc. If you don’t think this will happen, you are invited to explain your reasoning.

Another line of speculation is that Hegseth is going to order the generals, admirals, commodores, and whatever to root out all the troops in their command who made disparaging social media posts about Charlie Kirk. Or give everyone a giant pay raise. Or prepare for World War 3. You can’t rule ANYTHING out.

The average General and Admiral earns about $220,000 a year. So if 100 of them do take early retirement, the savings will only be $22 million a year. Chump change. Except that they will all get military retirement pensions (as they should), so the actual savings will be quite a bit smaller.

But the optics of this are going to be great. “Hey folks, I just fired 100 generals. But don’t worry, we still have at least 3 secret bases in Mogadishu Somalia nobody even knows about, so we’re safer than ever. Ignore the state sponsored hacking which is disabling our airports and commercial flights”.

I'm just sayin' . . .

Hegseth abruptly summons top military commanders to meeting in Virginia | AP News

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