Women veterans are denouncing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech to senior military leaders, specifically his agenda for ...
Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth raised eyebrows this week when he said in a speech to military generals that fitness standards for combat must "return to the highest male standard." ...
Chrissy Houlahan wanted to be a Navy pilot just like her dad and grandfather. But growing up in the 1980s there were very few ...
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the former Army vice chief of staff, said he is “concerned” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s ...
Following Hegseth's speech on military fitness standards, some expressed concern there’s a false narrative only female servicemembers aren't meeting certain standards.
For more than 40 years, pollsters have been asking people about allowing women in combat roles. In 1982, when NORC asked ...
While addressing military leaders on Tuesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reopened the debate nationally on women in ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion Tuesday that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from certain combat roles has reignited fears about his approach to women in the ...
The Pentagon is terminating a decades-old advisory group that offered recommendations on how to support women serving in the military, including past suggestions that women needed properly fitting ...
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 ...
Serious people won't pay attention to you if your only objection to women serving in combat if you just say, "No sir, I don't like it!" So people with dated ideas about what women can do are forced to ...
One thing the U.S. military can do is draft reports. The Pentagon has released the services’ plans detailing how women are to be integrated into front-line combat units over the next couple of years.