President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed hundreds of the U.S. military’s top generals at a rare in-person meeting in northern Virginia on Tuesday. Hegseth had ordered about 800 military officials with a rank of one-star general or rear admiral or higher to travel to the Marine Corps base in Quantico,

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth addressed hundreds of top commanders from around the world.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered top generals and admirals around the world to gather in Quantico, Va., where he announced new military standards.

ABC News obtained memos filed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that showed he is reviewing military policies on hazing and harrasment.

At Quantico, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—calling himself “Secretary of War”—unveiled a muscular reset: tougher standards, twice-yearly fitness tests for everyone, and a strategy pivoting from China toward the Western Hemisphere and homeland defense.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announces changes to physical requirements for combat personnel and other policy shifts eliminating DEI in the military.

After listing the proposed changes, Hegseth gave the assembled officers a warning: “If the words I’m speaking today are making your hearts sink, then you should do the honorable thing and resign.” If the commanders wanted to better understand what he was saying, he jokingly told them, they could pick up a copy of his book.

The View’s Sunny Hostin strongly criticized Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on Tuesday after he unveiled new measures to tighten physical fitness requirements across the U.S. military, calling his remarks “bizarre” and “not an uplifting message.