Trump and Hegt to turn to the best US generals at an unusual military gathering

US President Donald Trump and Defense Minister Pete Heget will personally turn to the US military top brass, for an unusual event near Washington.

Hundreds of military leaders are expected to be present, including generals and admirals worldwide. It is a rare collection of so many senior staff in one place.

No official reason was provided publicly when the leaders were summoned last week in a short time, causing speculation noise. Vice President JD Vance is striving to downplay the event.

The security is extremely narrow for the summit, which will be held at the Quantico Marine Corps, a scattered facility of 55,000 acres in Virginia.

Behind the scene where heget and Trump were expected to speak was a big American flag, with banners showing the words “power, service, America” ​​and the various flags of the armed services on both sides.

Confirming your own attendance on Sunday, Trump said it would be “a really enjoyable meeting, we’re talking about how well we are doing military, we’re talking about being in great shape, we’re talking about very good, positive things.”

The president told NBC News that he would be an exercise to generate some “Esprit de Corps” – suggesting that he saw the opportunity to galvanize his troops.

In his earlier comments, Vance accused the media of turning him into a “big story”, emphasizing that it was not unusual “heget generals to meet him personally.

Some observers do not agree. Giuseppe Kavo Drakne, an Italian Admiral, who serves as chairman of the NATO Military Committee, was quoted by the AP News agency, saying: “As for my 49 -year -old service, I have never seen this before.”

Mark Kankan of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Think Thank told Reuters: “It is a mystizure why this is not practically done so that senior officers do not have to spend much time traveling.”

G -N Canreon continued to speculate that Heget believes that his points would be more powerful if made in person.

During his term as Minister of Defense, heget made much of the need to plant a “war ethos” in US troops and supported a rebrand for his government department from the Ministry of Defense at the Ministry of War.

The exact number of expected present on Tuesday is unclear, but according to reports it can be over 800, including officers derived from military installations to Europe, South Korea and the Middle East.

Many officers arrived hours before the event and were sitting in the audience according to their branch of the service – an army, maritime infantry, Navy, Air Force and Space Forces, which are easily different in uniforms.

Many of them wore medals from campaigns showing that they had served in Afghanistan, Iraq or the American wider war against the terror, which started after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

In addition to the generals, the audience consists of the highest employees of different US units around the world – which means that people who serve as the main advisor to the staff of the commander officer for their respective units.