Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s last-minute call for hundreds of generals and admirals to travel to a Virginia base has current and former Defense officials scratching their heads as to what would warrant such a major in-person gathering.

The order to attend a Tuesday meeting at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Va. — reportedly to hear Hegseth give a short speech on military standards and “warrior ethos” — was sent this past week to all officers with the rank of one-star general or rear admiral and above, as well as their senior enlisted leaders.

The highly unusual gathering, not seen before in recent memory in terms of its size and last-minute nature, has created more questions than answers as to what would warrant what some former military officials have labeled an “extremely biza

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