Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants to review standard changes since the 1990s. Military women watching shifts in DoD worry about what's coming.

The termination of the committee, originally created in 1951 as women were just beginning to take on increased ... recommendations to the Secretary of Defense based on visits to US military ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion Tuesday that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urges a return to 1990s military standards, citing data on changes in the armed forces' ...

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 ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth drew criticism this week after suggesting that women in the armed forces had been allowed ...

For more than 40 years, pollsters have been asking people about allowing women in combat roles. In 1982, when NORC asked ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has proposed a “1990 test” to replace current military standards with those of 1990, which would exclude women from certain combat roles, despite their ...

The U.S. military has historically been an engine for cultural and social change in America. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s vision for the armed forces he leads runs counter to that.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) on Sunday went after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, saying the military “could not do its job” without “the women who serve.” “Well, this is the least qualified ...

Hegseth has also fired or replaced a number of women in leadership positions in a broader purge of military personnel, including former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for a review of military standards changes since the 1990s. Hegseth's new orders follow the closure of a Pentagon advisory committee supporting military women.