ordered the elimination of lower fitness standards for women in combat roles. By Jonathan Wolfe Women in U.S. Army combat roles will be expected to pass the same “sex-neutral” physical test as ...

wrote an opinion article published in 2021 by The Modern War Institute at West Point that called for gender-neutral fitness testing standards. She argued that lower standards for women ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called for all military branches to review standards for shaving, fitness and troops ... authorized lifting a 1994 ban on women serving in direct ground combat ...

In 2021, the Army test-launched a new version of its Combat Fitness Test, the basic physical fitness test required of all its soldiers, with gender-neutral standards. More than 40% of all women ...