Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that he signed a memorandum to establish "sex-neutral standards" for combat roles.
On Monday, Hegseth posted a video on social media announcing that he ordered the military to re-evaluate its current fitness criteria in an effort to eliminate different requirements for men and women in combat arms occupations.
"For far too long, we allowed standards to slip and different standards for men and women in combat arms [military occupational specialties] and jobs. That's not acceptable," Hegseth stated.
"We need to have the same standard — 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," he declared.
