Defense Secretary Pete HegseTh orders an assessment of military fitness and care standards such as the Trump administration Continues to reverse the policy that critics say that the American fighting power on the world stage seems to be weaker.
In a memo on Wednesday as Senior Pentagon Leadership, Hegseeth Darin Selnick, the under Secretary defense For personnel and readyness, to collect existing standards in all American military branches related to physical fitness, body composition and care, including regulations for beards.
“We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that enable the men and women of our army to protect the American people and our home country as the world’s most deadly and effective fighting power,” Hegseeth said in a statement. “Our opponents do not become weaker and our tasks do not grow less challenging.”
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The American Minister of Defense Pete Hegseeth talks to the media during his visit to the head office of US European Command and Africa Command at the Africa Command in Kelly Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, 11 February 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
The assessment will “alleviate how the department has maintained the level of standards that is necessary in the recent past and the process of any change in those standards,” he added.
Defense secretary Pete Hegseeth, right, participates in physical training with the 1st battalion, 10th Special Forces Group (Airborne), a battalion of the US Army in Stuttgart, Germany. (Defsec Hegseeth on X)
Leaders will see how those standards have changed since 1 January 2015 and provide insight into how they have evolved and the effect of those changes.
Hegseeth has sworn To reduce harder standards, while the “awake” policy that is not in accordance with the recovery of the Warrior ethos, rebuilding the army and repairing deterrence.
US Army Capt. Kristen Griest participates in training at the US Army Ranger School on April 20, 2015 in Fort Benning, GA. (Scott Brooks/US Army via Getty images)
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“Our standards will be high, uncompromising and clear,” he told service members in a memo of January 25. “The power of our army is our unity and our shared goal.”
