Pete Hegseth: We're Restoring Old Combat Standards, and Will No Longer Have Different Standards for Men and Women

Oh no anything but this

Note that the physical standards will be higher for "combat arms" MOS's (military occupational specialties), as opposed to support/technical MOS's.

Will women be able to qualify for combat roles... if they meet the same standards demanded of men.

We'll soon have a very large-scale study about whether it's true that there is no difference in the physical abilities of men and women, as the leftists and Trans Cultists insist.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday ordering men and women to meet the same physical fitness requirements if they want to serve in combat roles, saying the Pentagon had "allowed standards to slip."

"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 specialty," or job type.

"We have 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."

The memo, which orders the military branches to "develop comprehensive plans to distinguish combat arms occupations from non-combat arms occupations," specifies in hand-underlined text that the soon-to-be-developed standards must not "result in any existing service member being held to a lower standard."

"All entry-level and sustained physical fitness requirements within combat arms positions must be sex-neutral, based solely on the operational demands of the occupation and the readiness needed to confront any adversary," Hegseth wrote.

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For example, Hegseth's guidance says troops on the front lines should be able to "carry heavy loads, endure prolonged physical exertion and perform effectively in austere, hostile environments."

"Service members in these roles must exhibit speed, strength, agility and endurance to navigate the demands of combat situations," the document reads.

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