According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on the 29th, just as US President Trump plans to convene a meeting of senior US military generals on September 30th, flight tracking data shows that a US aerial tanker formation flew over the Atlantic Ocean.

According to the report, a social media account that analyzes military situation through Open Source Network Intelligence (OSINT) posted on the X platform that on the evening of September 28, local time, about 12 U.S. Air Force KC-135R/T "Stratotankers" departed from the United States mainland, some of which flew to Royal Air Force Mildenhall Base.

According to the analysis of the Daily Mail, such a large-scale aerial tanker mobilization usually means that the US military or NATO will face urgent fighter refueling needs. Three U.S. Defense Department sources (two former officials and one current official) who did not want to be named told the newspaper that the deployment was significant. They recalled that the last time the U.S. military dispatched a tanker of similar size was five days before U.S. warplanes launched air strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.

According to the report, Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in the White House on the 29th, and as scheduled on the 30th, Trump will attend an emergency meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hergershith in Pattiko, Virginia, where U.S. military commanders at the highest level will attend.

According to the Washington Post, this high-level meeting caused public attention after its first exposure last week. Hundreds of U.S. military generals returning from around the world, including some of the current officers in active conflict areas, were called for an emergency meeting, but the specific agenda of the meeting has not yet been announced. The Daily Mail said a source close to Hertz said that even the general knew little about the details of the meeting, and they were told the day before that the meeting would be a round table.

Trump announced on the 28th that he would attend this temporary global summit of the top US military commanders. He called it a "pleasant meeting" and would deliver "good news".

Flight tracking data shows U.S. Air Tank Flight Source: report screenshot

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The theme of an emergency meeting of US generals exposed, Trump: I want to tell the generals that we love them

U.S. President Trump will attend an urgently convened military meeting on the 30th. The meeting was hastily convened by U.S. Defense Secretary Hagerseth. As a result, U.S. military generals stationed around the world rushed to Quantico, Virginia, and will attend the meeting at the local U.S. Marine Corps Base on the 30th. The United States has troops stationed in many places around the world, commanded by generals of different ranks, so it is relatively rare for US generals to gather in one place for meetings.

This is an aerial shot of Xinhua News Agency, the Pentagon, where the U.S. Department of Defense is located

The Associated Press reported on the 28th that Trump seemed completely unaware of the meeting when he was first asked by reporters at the White House. Later, Trump described the meeting as "group spirit" in a telephone interview with NBC News on the 28th.

He also told Reuters reporters in an interview: ¡°I want to tell the generals that we love them.They are valued leaders, to be strong, to be hard, to be clever and to have compassion.¡±

CNN, citing anonymous sources, that the summit was Hegershys¡¯s idea and later told the White House about the plan. Why so many U.S. generals gathered together is unclear. It is estimated that many U.S. generals went to the conference site, with tickets costing hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, and the conference was expected to last just over an hour and will also be broadcast live online.

As of the 26th, there were no reports that Heidegger would make important statements on national security at the meeting.CNN reports quoted a White House official as saying the meeting was merely a demonstration of the power of the ¡°new military¡± to tell the world what the military under the president was like.

On June 13, U.S. Naval Corps soldiers stood at the entrance of the Wells Hill Federal Building in Los Angeles.

On the 27th, Trump announced that he would send troops to Portland, Oregon, where the Democratic Party is in charge, on the grounds of dealing with "domestic terrorists", which was boycotted by the local government. In June and August this year, Trump sent troops to Los Angeles and Washington, but also encountered strong resistance.

The Associated Press quoted unnamed White House officials as saying that there was no plan to invite Trump to attend the meeting, but he wanted to attend and would make a speech at the meeting. Trump's attendance is believed to weaken Hegseth's sense of presence at the meeting. Hegseth originally planned to discuss the necessity of implementing the "warrior spirit" by the U.S. military at the meeting, and the meeting will also involve other fields. According to Reuters, in almost every public speech, Hegseth talks about the "warrior spirit" and the need for the U.S. military to have a warrior mentality.

Hagerseth was a former Fox News Channel host. Before becoming Defense Minister in January this year, he had little government experience. Less than three months after taking office, Hagerseth fell into a "signal gate" storm on suspicion of leaking secrets in Group chats, triggering a "huge earthquake" in personnel within the Department of Defense and being accused of plunging the Pentagon into "complete chaos." The meeting was convened at a time when Hagerseth was implementing large-scale reforms in the Department of Defense, including a 20% reduction of four-star generals in active US troops and a high-profile renaming of the "Department of Defense" to the "Department of War."