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Road to 350: What Does the US Navy Do Anyway?

Flash said:
Not according to the article, it says all Generals and Flag Officers in command positions.
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Copy - I was listening to other reporting that mentions 3-4 star as I was posting this. Obviously a lot going on and this is developing.

Is there a auditorium/conf facility big enough to hold that kind of crowd?

Interesting times.

Imagining the traffic in DTS right now as everyone tying to get their auth in...
 
JTS11 said:
Each GOFO will have 5 seconds to demonstrate a proper "war face" as their name is called to center stage in a Quantico auditorium. Retention of command will be based on a thumbs up or thumbs down from the Secretary of War and Ka$h Patel that is being broadcast live on the Pentagon Channel.
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Bonus points with Ka$h for the “deer in headlights” war face. :rolleyes:

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ChuckMK23 said:
Apparently SECDEF is ordering in-person meeting with all 3 & 4 Star GO/FO next week in Quantico - and no one knows what its about....

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm after the Trump administration’s firing of numerous senior leaders this year.

The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. The directive was issued earlier this week, as a government shutdown looms, and months after Hegseth’s team at the Pentagon announced plans to undertake a sweeping consolidation of top military commands.


In a statement Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell affirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” but he offered no additional details. Parnell, a senior adviser to the defense secretary, voiced no concerns about The Washington Post reporting on the meeting, scheduled for Tuesday in Quantico, Virginia.

There are about 800 generals and admirals spread across the United States and dozens of other countries and time zones. Hegseth’s order, people familiar with the matter said, applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers. Typically, these officers each oversee hundreds or thousands of rank-and-file troops.

Top commanders in conflict zones and senior military leaders stationed throughout Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region are among those expected to attend Hegseth’s meeting, said people familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to publicly discuss the issue. The order does not apply to top military officers who hold staff positions.
None of the people who spoke with The Post could recall a defense secretary ever ordering so many of the military’s generals and admirals to assemble like this. Several said it raised security concerns.


“People are very concerned. They have no idea what it means,” one person said.
Two others expressed frustration that even many commanders stationed overseas will be required to attend. One said, this is “not how this is done.”
“You don’t call GOFOs leading their people and the global force into an auditorium outside D.C. and not tell them why/what the topic or agenda is,” this person said, using an abbreviation for general officer or flag officer.
“Are we taking every general and flag officer out of the Pacific right now?” one U.S. official said. “All of it is weird.”
The orders come as Hegseth has unilaterally directed massive recent changes at the Pentagon — including directing that the number of general officers be reduced by 20 percent, firing senior leaders without cause and a high-profile new order to rebrand the Defense Department as the Department of War.
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I'm getting tired of having spent my entire adult life living in "unprecedented" times.
 
Brett327 said:
The order also includes their SELs. I don't recall ever seeing a super-large auditorium there, though they'll probably pipe the video feed into as many conference rooms as necessary.
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If you form them in battalions by rank and put them at parade rest there is plenty of room at Lejeune Field!

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BigRed389 said:
If you’re referring to the airfields of WW2 fame…sure, don’t gold plate it.

But the ability of the adversary to conduct targeting and engage with PGMs has gotten way better as well. If you think a CVN (even under EMCON) is a missile magnet, an EABO airfield, and the sustainment tail to keep it fed, is also probably pretty easy to target. Probably even easier in some ways.

Personally I think everybody is struggling a bit with this being a truly joint fight where we really do need everybody to contribute, and most platforms simply can’t even play without others doing their jobs.
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And then, there is this to consider. Having to plan for, and counter an asymmetric PRC maritime threat like what the Ukrainians did with Operation Spiderweb would be daunting . . .
 
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