The Army has reconfigured its fitness test, dropping the ball throw, making the test sex-neutral for combat arms and raising ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military services to conduct a 'sex-neutral' review of requirements for combat ...

“Different standards for men and women in combat arms, MOS and jobs, that’s not acceptable,” Hegseth said in a video posted to X, using the abbreviation for “military occupational specialt ...

we allowed standards to slip and different standards for men and women in combat arms. … That’s not acceptable,” he said in a video posted to social platform X in March. Past military ...

"I am directing the Secretaries of the Military Departments to develop comprehensive plans to distinguish combat arms occupations from non-combat arms occupations," Hegseth wrote in the document.

(Stephen B. Morton/AP) 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 ...

McGurk, whose team was responsible for developing the test, said it would be less "disruptive" for the military to adjust its existing standards for combat arms positions rather than to completely ...