Breaking: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just “ordered hundreds of the U.S. military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice” next Tuesday at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, the Washington Post reported Thursday.

No reason was given for the rare and urgent meeting, which is scheduled “as a government shutdown looms,” the Post reminds readers ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline, which is Tuesday.

The order “applies to all senior officers with the rank of brigadier general or above, or their Navy equivalent, serving in command positions and their top enlisted advisers,” five Post journalists report. Officers with those ranks in staff positions are exempted.

The meeting appears to be unprecedented. “All of it is weird,” one U.S. official said, and asked,

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