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By Alexander Willis
Published September 30, 2025 9:12 AM ET
During the unprecedented and surprise meeting of hundreds of admirals and top U.S. military officials in Virginia Tuesday, Defense Department Secretary Pete Hegseth railed against what he characterized as a scourge of fat troops and fat generals and admirals, and announced a series of new physical fitness standards all military members must adhere to going forward.
If the secretary of War can do regular, hard [physical training], so can every member of our joint force, Hegseth said, speaking at the event in Quantico, a giant American flag behind him.
Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations or really any formation and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon. It's a bad look! It is bad, and it's not who we are.
https://www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth-2674117002/
1) You flew these people in so that you could give a pep talk about fitness's at the expense of taxpayers..............I fucking want my money back asshole
2) Did you tell that fat fuck golf player (Orange hair Traitor) to get is shape or does the Ronnie Jackson treatment get a fucking pass...........were waiting asshole
3) Did you get your loyalty oaths to turn the country into a complete Russian failed state of fealty................asshole
4) Did you bring all the maga senators ( like Joni Ernst) that confirmed you to give them a update on your bullshit and they gave you high fives................asshole
5) Did you give them a heads up that all personnel will not be getting paid because your fucking commander and chief the maga senate leader and the supporter of the insurrection maga house leader think that paychecks are like the military does not need them during a government shut down (they can go get a loan from paycheck by the week place and pay 18% with no credit check) because they maga republicans think greed is fucking good because they still get theirs..............asshole
6) SO did you tell them that if not Fucking resign ..........or get impeached......asshole

Aristus
(71,107 posts)Gonna work on that, Kegsbreath?
Hela
(472 posts)Must be all that deep dish.
tinymontgomery
(2,845 posts)and hang their heads in shame when watching this go viral.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,605 posts)Lovie777
(20,716 posts)
Srkdqltr
(9,012 posts)did look awful. The armed services need to look better. But then they are not around for looks.
chowder66
(11,436 posts)2MuchNoise
(530 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,012 posts)obamanut2012
(28,927 posts)displacedvermoter
(3,953 posts)Last edited Tue Sep 30, 2025, 01:27 PM - Edit history (1)
properly, you would have seen some of the most professional, best conditioned soldiers in the world. The Army's heart wasn't in it for that cheesy event. It really took the shine off the 250th anniversary.
They kept calling Milley fat. I can't imagine wanting to have him grab me, big dude. Christ I wish he had levelled Trump just once.
thomski64
(790 posts)To protect against all enemies, should have ended like the one for Anwar Sadat....
Ponietz
(4,094 posts)qazplm135
(7,654 posts)Because most of them are 55+ and human biology combined with a ridiculous busy and packed schedule makes being svelte pretty hard.
Add in 30+ years of military life and their joints and back are trash, I know from experience.
They aren't there to fight. They are there to plan.
orangecrush
(27,002 posts)Were an intentional insult to Trump.
And the Generals are people who have served for 30 plus years, are advanced in age and have no need to prove anything to a piece of shit like Kegsbreath.
meadowlander
(5,008 posts)especially when we're talking about the 50+ year olds who sit in command watching the action on monitors.
Also, there's something to be said for:
Sneederbunk
(16,889 posts)UpInArms
(53,539 posts)
And

C_U_L8R
(48,287 posts)Figures.
Buns_of_Fire
(18,837 posts)At an appropriate spot in his manly-motivational speech, I would expect him to rip off his shirt, yelling "THIS is what a manly-soldier looks like, you wusses!" Whereupon the entire command branch of the US military will be temporarily disabled by a violent attack of projectile vomiting.
Tetrachloride
(9,179 posts)yellowcanine
(36,639 posts)
CentralMass
(16,608 posts)
democratsruletheday
(1,638 posts)you outta know. What a door jam this guy is.
Prairie Gates
(6,513 posts)Bro, like, bro, seriously, bro. If I can get jacked, anyone can, bro. Gnaw mean, bro? Bro, seriously tho, bro. Look how jacked I am, bro. That's hard lifts bro. Fuck cardio. That's for girls, bro. You gotta get jacked, bro. Fucking progressions all day, bro. All DAY! Let's fucking go, bros!
RainCaster
(13,186 posts)This asshole has no room to talk.
Kid Berwyn
(22,138 posts)CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!
CHUG! CHUG! CHUG!
Falls over, return to happy place under the table.
Totally Tunsie
(11,351 posts)Is Hogsbreath going to send them all back to Boot Camp?
Blues Heron
(7,843 posts)Rebl2
(17,095 posts)them all together to tell them they are too fat? Did he tell trump hes too fat.
Couldnt he have done this meeting over zoom. As far as troops, dont they have trouble recruiting in the first?
Norbert
(7,408 posts)From throwing back all those shots of Jack every day.
bigtree
(93,009 posts)...drunk asshole.
50 Shades Of Blue
(11,282 posts)AllaN01Bear
(27,651 posts)wonder if he has looked in a mirror lately.
rubbersole
(10,734 posts)orangecrush
(27,002 posts)70sEraVet
(4,999 posts)Coventina
(28,799 posts)

Wednesdays
(21,037 posts)
Hermann Goering, Hitler's second in command.
The Reddit article where I found the pic also mentioned that when the Allies captured Goering, they needed a special plane to transport him because he was so heavy.
Orrex
(66,198 posts)dsvajda
(25 posts)Space Force have to meet these combat standards? Just wondering?
Ping Tung
(3,883 posts)Just sayin'.
The Revolution
(866 posts)I guess not
Wiz Imp
(7,698 posts)He said he was ordering a review of the departments definitions of so-called toxic leadership, bullying and hazing to empower leaders to enforce standards without fear of retribution or second guessing.
The defense secretary called for changes to the retention of adverse information on personnel records that will allow leaders with forgivable, earnest, or minor infractions to not be encumbered by those infractions in perpetuity.
Bullying and toxic leadership has been the suspected and confirmed cause behind numerous military suicides over the past several years, including the very dramatic suicide of Brandon Caserta, a young sailor who was bullied into killing himself in 2018.
https://www.wyff4.com/article/hegseth-trump-military-directives-meeting-quantico/68130609
He apparently think Jack Nicholson was the good guy in the movie "A Few Good Men".