From the moment women entered the combat arms, the Pentagon focused on maintaining standards over anything else — and, in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised that the United States would soon have the highest and equal combat standards for men and women in the military. “For far too long, we allowed standards to slip ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised that the United States would soon have the highest and equal combat standards for men and women in the military. “For far too long, we allowed standards ...

Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, angering many women who see the move as unfair. In a new memo, the defense secretary told ...

Beginning in January 2016, all military jobs opened to women who met the qualifications, and in July 2020, the U.S. Army Special Operations Command announced that the first woman authorized by the ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to end separate fitness standards for women in combat roles, a move he said will make the military more lethal, but that women servicemembers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to develop 'sex-neutral' physical fitness standards for combat roles.