Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday evening ordered the military services to set sex-neutral physical fitness standards for combat arms, reversing more than a decade of the erosion of standards in hopes of recruiting more women.
“For far too long, we allowed standards to slip, and different standards for men and women in combat arms, [military occupational specialties] and jobs, that’s not acceptable,” Hegseth said in a video on his official plane flying back from Japan before signing a memo to implement the order.
“We need to have the same standard, male or female, in our combat roles to ensure our men and women who are [in] those formations have the best possible leaders and the highest possible standards that are not based
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