Pete Hegseth’s remarks about women in combat are met with disgust and dissent

Now, some female veterans and service members are railing against remarks Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick ...
Time

Women in Combat: Listening to Those Who Have Been There

When I heard Leon Panetta’s announcement about lifting the combat restrictions on women in the military, I immediately thought of former Army National Guard Sergeant Paigh Bumgarner. Bumgarner had ...
Military Times

Hegseth orders review of physical standards for military combat roles

Members of a platoon of female U.S. Marine Corps recruits gear up before training in hand-to-hand combat at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, S.C., in 2023. (Stephen B. Morton/AP) ...
USA Today

Hegseth orders 'sex-neutral' combat fitness tests, raising concern from military women

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the military to end separate fitness standards for women in combat roles, a move he said will make the military more lethal, but that women servicemembers and ...
New York Post

Hegseth orders same physical requirements for men, women in combat roles, says US ‘allowed standards to slip’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday ordering men and women to meet the same physical fitness requirements if they want to serve in combat roles, saying the Pentagon had “allowed ...
The New York Times

Pentagon Eliminates Lower Fitness Standards for Women in Combat Roles

Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, mandated that physical fitness requirements for combat jobs be “sex-neutral,” a move that is likely to significantly reduce the number of women who qualify. By ...
MSNBC

Pete Hegseth’s disparagement of women soldiers factor into new test requirements

Last week, the U.S. Army announced new fitness standards in line with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders to make the standards for women and men in combat roles the same. Like much of Hegseth’s ...
The Atlantic

The Worst Argument Against Women in Combat Yet: They're Sad Rape Victims

We've heard a lot of arguments against women in combat: They wouldn't be able lift injured male soldiers. (Not true.) They don't have the killer instinct. (Most people don't.) They are anatomically ...
The Hill

Sherrill says Hegseth ‘escalating his war on women in the military’

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), a former Navy pilot running for New Jersey governor, on Tuesday accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of trying to force women out of the military after he announced the ...