Joint Chiefs Chair Mark Milley for lowering standards. Hegseth vows to restore discipline and military readiness.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a sweeping, military-wide review of physical fitness and grooming standards with the apparent aim of making the military a stricter and less accommodating ...

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that he was ... Trump has suggested that Gen. Mark Milley, his former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who retired in 2023, should ...

Jack Reed (D-R.I.) said Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were attempting ... Michael Mullen, and, most recently, Gen. Mark Milley. Speaking to host Martha Raddatz, Reed was also sharply ...

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

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is taking aim at the military’s legal system, specifically the judge advocate general corps, in order to relax the rules of war. The Guardian reports that Hegseth is ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed in January to review "in a gender-neutral way" readiness standards for troops.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth defended ... test we care about,” Hegseth said. In June 2024, according to ABC News, Hegseth said on The Right Take With Mark Tapson podcast: “Every time ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced plans this week to move up to $50 billion of the Pentagon’s budget from “low-impact and low-priority programs” to ones that align with President ...

Pentagon press secretary John Ullyot lobbed a shot at the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, as he explained Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's new review of physical fitness and ...