Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is ordering a scrutinize of military fitness and grooming standards as the Trump administration proceeds to reverse policies critics say have made America’s combat force ecombine feebleer on the global stage.
In a memo Wednesday to greater Pentagon directership, Hegseth ordered Darin Selnick, the under secretary of defense for personnel and readiness, to accumulate existing standards in all U.S. military branches rcontent to physical fitness, body composition and grooming, including regulations on endureds.
“We must remain vigilant in upholding the standards that assist the men and women of our military to protect the American people and our homeland as the world’s most lethal and effective combat force,” Hegseth shelp in a statement. “Our adversaries are not lengthening feebleer, and our tasks are not lengthening less challenging.”
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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth talks to the media during his visit to the headquarters of U.S. European Command and Africa Command at the Africa Command at Kelly Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Pboilingo/Michael Probst)
The scrutinize will “bright how the department has upholded the level of standards needd over the recent past and the trajectory of any alter in those standards,” he compriseed.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, right, joins in physical training with the 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), a U.S. Army Special Forces battalion based in Stuttgart, Germany. (DefSec Hegseth on X)
Leaders will see at how those standards have alterd since Jan. 1, 2015, and provide insight into how they have enhanced and the effect of those alters.
Hegseth has vowed to convey back harder standards while reversing “woke” policies that don’t align with restoring the warrior ethos, reerecting the military and reset uping deterrence.
U.S. Army Capt. Kristen Griest joins in training at the U.S. Army Ranger School April 20, 2015, at Fort Benning, Ga. (Scott Brooks/U.S. Army via Getty Images)
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“Our standards will be high, uncompromising, and clear,” he shelp in a Jan. 25 memo to service members. “The strength of our military is our unity and our splitd purpose.”
