{"id":169266,"date":"2025-05-06T07:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=169266"},"modified":"2025-05-06T07:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T11:44:54","slug":"then-they-came-for-the-generals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=169266","title":{"rendered":"Then they came for the Generals.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-169267 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/generals.jpg?resize=300%2C212&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/generals.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/generals.jpg?w=331&amp;ssl=1 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>And I laughed because I was not a Pefumed Prince.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Hegseth directs 20% cut to top military leadership positions<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Tara Copp, AP<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday directed the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers as the Trump administration keeps pushing the services to streamline their top leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p>Hegseth also told the National Guard to shed 20% of its top positions.<\/p>\n<p>In a memo dated Monday, Hegseth said the cuts will remove \u201credundant force structure to optimize and streamline leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On top of the cuts to the top-tier four-star generals, Hegseth has also directed the military to shed an additional 10% of its general and flag officers across the force, which could include any one-star or above or officer of equivalent Navy rank.<\/p>\n<p>There are about 800 general officers in the military, but only 44 of those are four-star generals or flag officers. Hegseth has already directed the firings of more than a half-dozen three- and four-star generals since taking office, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/breaking-news\/2025\/05\/05\/hegseth-directs-20-cut-to-top-military-leadership-positions\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Culling the herd by eliminating eight or nine 4-star positions, and an additional 10% of other, lesser Flags across the military.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I laughed because I was not a Pefumed Prince. Hegseth directs 20% cut to top military leadership positions By Tara Copp, AP Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday directed the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers as the Trump administration keeps pushing the services to streamline their top leadership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":169267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-bravo-zulu"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/generals.jpg?fit=331%2C234&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-I26","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}