The Pentagon will conduct a review of all military fitness and grooming standards, according to a memo Wednesday from ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior Pentagon leadership to review how and why grooming standards, including beards, ...

Pete Hegseth, controversial Trump pick, has ordered review of military standard focusing on grooming, body fat and hairstyles ...

The review will include standards for physical fitness, body composition and grooming, including beards, which are currently not allowed in the military, apart from some religious exemptions, ...

The Office of Net Assessment opened more than 50 years ago and developed concepts for possible conflict with U.S. adversaries ...

What To Know. In the Department of Defense memo, Hegseth said: "We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made his own personal lawyer a Navy commander in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. The ...

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

At the same time, Republican lawmakers are aiming to add more than $100 billion to the Pentagon’s proposed budget, which ...

Hegseth’s directive comes after the Biden administration loosened restrictions on various grooming and hairstyle rules for military service members, as well as body fat percentage requirements for ...

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 ...

The department-wide review will analyze the standards of all U.S. military branches to ensure they are the "most lethal and effective fighting force." ...