Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders review of fitness standards across the ranks, calling for vigilance "as the world's ...

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

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

What To Know. In the Department of Defense memo, Hegseth said: "We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that ...

Hegseth’s directive comes after the Biden administration loosened restrictions on various grooming and hairstyle rules for military service members, as well as body fat percentage requirements for ...

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 […] ...

"We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that enable the men and women of our military to protect the American people and our homeland as the world's most lethal and effective ...