Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders review of fitness standards across the ranks, calling for vigilance "as the world's ...

The review will include standards for physical fitness, body composition and grooming, including beards, which are currently ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ordering an evaluation of the fitness and grooming standards of the U.S. military. The ...

Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley for lowering standards. Hegseth vows to restore discipline and military readiness.

The U.S. Army Reserve announced the launch of its Minuteman Campaign, a focused effort to provide Guaranteed Reserve Forces ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in January to review "in a gender-neutral way" readiness standards for troops.

Hegseth’s directive comes after the Biden administration loosened restrictions on various grooming and hairstyle rules for military service members, as well as body fat percentage requirements for ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a “rapid” services-wide review of existing standards for military physical fitness ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a sweeping, military-wide review of physical fitness and grooming standards with the apparent aim of making the military a stricter and less accommodating ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Wednesday ordering senior Pentagon leadership to conduct a review of military ...

The first woman entered the ranks of the Army's elite Green Berets in 2020, and there has yet to be a female Navy SEAL. On top of each military service's physical fitness standards are ...

The report raised questions about the health of recruits, as well as the Army’s understanding of its own standards for physical fitness. The Army announced in 2024 its intention to expand its ...