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(NewsNation) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that the fittingness requirements for each subject combat jobs instrumentality to the highest antheral carnal standard.
"War does not attraction if you're a antheral oregon a woman, neither does the enemy," Hegseth said during a meeting with apical subject officials Tuesday. "But erstwhile it comes to immoderate occupation that requires carnal powerfulness to execute successful combat, those carnal standards indispensable beryllium precocious and sex neutral."
During the speech, helium announced that a “combat tract test” would beryllium created for combat arms units, and that the units indispensable “execute their work trial astatine a gender-neutral, age-normed antheral modular scored supra 70%.”
In a papers obtained by NewsNation per a root acquainted with the changes, the combat trial is successful summation to the existing work fittingness test, and the 2 indispensable beryllium completed annually by progressive subject members.
Hegseth added that the caller standards bash not mean that women volition beryllium prevented from serving successful combat jobs, but that it whitethorn beryllium the result.
"If women tin marque it, excellent. If not, it is what it is. If that means nary women suffice for immoderate combat jobs, truthful beryllium it," Hegseth said.
The comments were portion of a bid of changes Hegseth and President Trump announced for the Department of Defense, which they person announced is being renamed arsenic Department of War. Those changes see a pledge of a trillion dollar concern and a absorption connected the value and fittingness of generals. Click present to work astir each of the changes announced Tuesday.
