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 ...

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

Pete Hegseth, controversial Trump pick, has ordered review of military standard focusing on grooming, body fat and hairstyles ...

Hegseth’s directive comes after the Biden administration loosened restrictions on various grooming and hairstyle rules for ...

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

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

The Pentagon will conduct a review of all military fitness and grooming standards, according to a memo Wednesday from ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior Pentagon leadership to review how and why grooming standards, including beards, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a comprehensive review of "military fitness, body composition and grooming" across all branches of the U.S. armed forces. The directive, announced on ...

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has put under review military standards, including physical fitness, body composition and ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a Pentagon-wide review of the physical fitness, body composition and grooming standards currently in place in the armed forces. Hegseth’s ...

The department-wide review will analyze the standards of all U.S. military branches to ensure they are the "most lethal and effective fighting force." ...