Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s review of military standards on combat and physical fitness and appearance will find widely ...

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be “sex-neutral,” a move ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, ...

It's a move that underscores Hegseth's broader push for higher standards in the military, but also one that reflects the long ...

Soldiers trying to earn the Army Ranger tab will have to do more challenging functional fitness exercises starting day one.

The defense secretary’s decision to review military standards on combat and physical fitness and appearance opens a Pandora’s ...

The Army's elite Ranger School, long regarded as one of the most grueling leadership courses in the military, is rolling out ...

The military has long had what is largely a two-part system for physical fitness standards: — Routine annual fitness tests with different requirements based on gender and age. — More grueling ...

Service secretaries now have 60 days to submit their proposed combat-role standards, and military branches will then be ...

Women already must pass gender-neutral physical fitness requirements for combat posts, but Hegseth contends the standards for ...

Early on the morning of March 3, Mahesh, a 34-year-old resident of Rourkela, in Odisha, reported at the district sports ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a review of combat fitness standards to ensure gender neutrality on Sunday, even ...