Pentagon orders to review fitness and winning standards

Defense Minister Pete Hegsth ordered a review of military fitness standards and appearance in all services, indicating that the modern policies that were placed in their place to facilitate women and minorities to be served soon.

Higseth, Minister of Defense of Employees and Ready, ordered “to collect the current standards set by military departments related to fitness, body formation, and grooming, which includes, but not limited to a beard,” according to a memorandum issued late on Wednesday.

The Undersecretary will then consider how and why these standards have changed since January 1, 2015, in the year in which the army announced that it will open all jobs for women, including fighting roles – and the impact of these changes, according to the memo.

“We must remain vigilant in maintaining the criteria that enable our army’s men and women to protect the American people and our homeland as the most deadly and effective combat power,” said Higseth in the memo.

The memo does not give an insight into the reason for Higseth to review, although his past and current speech indicates that he seeks to make military standards tougher and less absorbent.

“Our forces will be decent – not fat. Our forces will seem sharp – not dirty. We only seek quality – not quotas. The bottom line: @Deptofdenese our us will make the standards high and great again – via the entire power,” Higseth wrote at the late Wednesday.

Higseth previously suggested that the material standards of combat functions have been reduced to meet the variety of diversity, which is the claim that former defense officials and Democratic legislators have questioned.

In Podcast on November 7, Higseth said that the US military “should not have women in combat roles”, because “he did not make us more effective. It did not make us more deadly. Make the fighting more complicated.”

Later, in his Senate’s nomination session in January, Higseth changed his melody, pledging that women will get combat roles, “given that the criteria are still high.”

He said at the time, “We will have a review to ensure that the standards are not eroded in any case of these cases,” claiming that physical fitness standards have declined to reach “classes” for women in pedestrian positions.

HegSeth appears to be on social media positions also attacks the bombing bases of the body of the army throughout the army – an attempt to obtain more young people to recruit while America is struggling with obesity.

Each army branch determines the fitness standards and the structure, while now allowing the male air force to be employed by 26 percent, an increase of 20 percent, and women by 36 percent, an increase of 28 percent.

But recruits still have to meet the same standards that anyone else fulfills in their military branch for graduation and service.

HegSeth is also likely to follow changes in the criteria of grooming that have been made in the past few years, including the 2021 army bases that allow black women to wear their hair in more firm styles, allow women to wear earrings and a wide range of nail polishing and lipstick colors, and allow male soldiers to wear clear nail polish.

Supporters argue with these changes that comfortable requirements aim to make the army more comprehensive in an attempt to enhance recruitment numbers

The memo also rejoices beards, which are currently not allowed in the army, regardless of some religious or medical exemptions, although some services indicated that they can reduce the rules.

In 2020, the Air Force, for example, allowed medical concessions for five years to obtain a beard, to increase for one year exemptions that they previously provided.

This issue is of particular importance to black service members who suffer from a medical condition that leads to unwanted bumps and painful hairs caused by shaving regularly. The condition known as Pseudofoliculitis Barbae is repeatedly caused among black men compared to their white counterparts.