The U.S. military will use the same standards for testing both men and women for combat roles following a Sunday order from ...

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 ...

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

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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced Sunday a sweeping new policy that will require the U.S. military to adopt equal physical and performance standards for men and women serving in combat roles ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Sunday ordered a 60-day review of military combat arms standards to ensure that exceptions are not being made for female troops to assume the physically demanding ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday ordered a review of standards governing who can serve in combat positions, suggesting he may seek to make it harder for troops to qualify for certain ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs ...