Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the military services to require everyone who serves in a combat specialty to meet the same physical fitness standard.
Hegseth announced the policy was on the way by a video posted on X as he returned to the U.S. from Japan.
This from redstate.com.
Hi, everybody. Pete Hegseth here, and we’re about to land in Washington, DC, on our way back from Japan, where we’ve been meeting with the troops, talking to allies and partners, and reestablishing deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. This Sunday, of course, we’re still working, I want to show you one thing. It’s a new memorandum that’s coming out today on Combat Arms standards.
You see, for far too long, we have allowed standards to slip. We’ve had different standards for men and women in combat arms MOSs and jobs. That’s not acceptable. We need to have the same standards, male or female, in our combat roles to ensure our men and women who are under our leaders or in those formations have the best possible leaders and the highest possible standards that are not based at all on your sex, if you’re a man or a woman.
I’m signing this memorandum today. The services will review and see that we have nothing but the highest and equal standards for men and women in combat.
This announcement was foreshadowed by Hegseth’s review of military standards announced on March 13; see STRAC Is Back: SecDef Pete Hegseth Orders Review of Military Appearance, Fitness Standards – RedState.
There is only one reason this is even an issue: in 2013, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta opened ground combat positions to women.
In the social Petri dish environment the Obama administration created in the military, by 2015, women were forcibly graduated from Ranger School.
As I posted at the time in The Best And Perhaps Only Reason To Vote For Donald Trump – RedState:
Under Obama, the ‘long march’ became a sprint.
Senior officers who were outspoken Christians were forced into retirement. Into senior leadership slots were inserted yes-men of the worst sort. The suck-up-kick-down types who do whatever the boss tells them to do and ruthlessly punish subordinates for not falling in line.
Under the current Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, the collapse of a warrior culture has been complete. Homosexuals were allowed to serve openly with a concomitant increase of sexual assaults on male soldiers. Women were placed aboard submarines with a predictable impact on both morale and discipline. Three women were shepherded through Ranger School for no greater reason than to debase the performance standard there in the name of equality.
When the US Marine Corps did an empirical analysis of the performance of all-male versus co-ed infantry units they found the co-ed units performed at about 60% of the standard set by the all-male unit. Ashton Carter’s Pentagon pronounced it biased and disregarded it.
Transgendered military persons are not given the psychological discharges they so richly merit but are allowed to serve in whatever fictitious form they wish.
The services are rife with intellectually bankrupt types at all levels who are willing to say or do whatever it takes to get their heads patted by the command structure. In short, under Obama the US military has been transformed from one that demonstrated it could do anything anywhere to a cultural cesspool where megalomaniacs and sexual deviants rule the roost surrounded by battalions of sychophants panting to carry out their orders.
Final thoughts: America is back. We have a Commander in Chief and we have a Secretary of Defense who recognize the importance of a ready warfighting military.
God speed to our warfighters.
