Well, I was wrong about the purposes of Hegseth’s roundup of upper echelon military. It seems the real purposes were:

1) give Trump another stage on which to repeat old lies and a few recent ones

2) to show off Hegseth as a model for the U.S. military

As to 1: why do the media keep reporting Trump lies?  The fact that Trump is a compulsive liar is not news.

As to 2: should members of the U.S. military train to become blowhard, ass-kissing, hard drinking, womanizing, liars?