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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of military standards related to physical fitness and appearance across ...

A memo released on Wednesday directs the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness to review how the standards have changed since January 2015.

The review will include standards for physical fitness, body composition and grooming, including beards, which are currently ...

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 sweeping, military-wide review of physical fitness and grooming standards with the apparent aim of making the military a stricter and less accommodating ...

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 ...

Today Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a department-wide review of existing standards set by U.S. military branches pertaining to physical fitness, body composition, and grooming, which ...

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

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is combatting loosened restrictions and standards that the Biden administration allowed in the U.S. military. Hegseth ordered a review of military standards in […] ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of the military’s grooming standards—and he wants his generals to look ...