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Will Hegseth demand a loyalty oath from attendants to the September 30th all hands meeting?
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Hegseth has called a mysterious meeting of top army officers on September 30th. Many speculate that Hegseth will purge officers or demand an oath of loyalty to Trump personally at this meeting.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/29/hegseth-trump-quantico-meeting-cost/86422869007/

Question resolves YES if at least 2 sources from Wikipedia's list of reliable news sources report that the Hegseth meeting involved an "oath of loyalty" to Trump personally, or commitment of willingness to give orders to fire on protesters, or any similar thing whose fundamental structure is Hegseth demanding an oath or affirmation from officers that they will carry out orders or show loyalty he would otherwise have uncertainty about their willingness to carry out.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

I will give the news a week to investigate and report on this, if nothing by October 5th the question resolves NO.

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Resolution basis: I searched BlueSky and Google for articles on this, and didn't find any alleging it did from any source, let alone a credible source. Therefore I conclude it didn't happen. Especially since BlueSky is currently freaking out about Jay's waffle tweet which they wouldn't be if they had Hegseth demanding a loyalty oath to freak out over.

bought Ṁ150 NO

Pretty sure it was just a stupid rally for Hegseth to talk about his hair and the number of pullups he can do. Total ego trip but as far as I can tell no "loyalty oath".

@Balasar This is also my impression, but like I said let's give it some time. My read is that the real loyalty test was showing up at all in the vein of

https://bsky.app/profile/neutral.zone/post/3m22teb6jzs2l

Which is concerning but not what the question is about. The question is about whether the attendants would be forced to affirm some kind of loyalty or willingness for dubious orders in some kind of ceremony and doesn't seem to have happened.

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