(1st Lt. Kate Kramer/Army) The Army has reconfigured its fitness test, dropping the ball throw, making the test sex-neutral for combat arms and raising the minimum required score for 21 combat ...

The updated test will feature five events instead of the current six and introduce higher, sex-neutral, and age-normalized standards for soldiers in combat arms roles, the statement said.

On March 31, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth mandated that the Pentagon review its combat arms standards to ensure that the military is making no exceptions for female servicemembers.

she said. In the memo, Hegseth directed the services to "clearly define" which roles are combat arms positions in their submitted plans. For those roles, all physical fitness standards ...

In a new memo, Hegseth told leaders of the military services to distinguish which jobs are considered combat arms — such as special operations or infantry, and require “heightened entry level ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a 60-day review of physical standards for military combat roles to ensure female troops are not being given exceptions for the physically challenging ...

In a new memo, Hegseth told leaders of the military services to distinguish which jobs are considered combat arms — such as special operations or infantry, and require “heightened entry level ...

“Different standards for men and women in combat arms, MOS and jobs, that’s not acceptable,” Hegseth said in a video posted to X, using the abbreviation for “military occupational specialt ...

"For far too long, we allowed standards to slip, and different standards for men and women in combat arms MOS's and jobs. That's not acceptable," Hegseth said. "We need to have the same standards ...

“For far too long, we allowed standards to slip and different standards for combat arms, [occupational specialties], and jobs,” Hegseth said in a video posted on X. “That’s not acceptable.” ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the secretaries of the military services to come up with a plan that distinguishes between combat-arms jobs and noncombat-arms jobs and ...