Hegseth touts 20% reduction in generals and admirals

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday the Pentagon has eliminated roughly 1 in 5 generals and admirals since he took over the department at the start of the second Trump administration, portraying it as a "clean break from the Defense Department of old." "Now the media calls that a purge. I call it accountability, and long overdue," he said during his "State of the Force" address to military officers and enlisted service members at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. "You see, you can't change a culture with the same people who enabled it. Personnel is policy at every single level." Secretary Hegseth referred to his address last year in which he laid out his mission of making the military "unrelenting, unapologetic and uncompromising" in its focus on "warfighting." "I think the generals heard the message. Those who responded positively, which is most of them, are leading newly focused and newly empowered and disciplined formations," he said. "Those generals who did no