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

New defense chief Pete Hegseth plans a fundamental overhaul of the military's legal system to give soldiers more leeway on ...

After just 50 days as Donald Trump's secretary of defense, former Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth is getting poor grades ...

Reacting to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth seeming to care more what the U.S. military looks like than preparing them to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a “rapid” services-wide review of existing standards for military physical fitness ...

The Department of Defense approved more than 20,000 applications from civilian employees in the deferred resignation program, ...

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

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 ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is ordering an evaluation of the fitness and grooming standards of the U.S. military. The ...

Locations set up across the country to give military entrance exams to potential recruits have been forced to close or reduce ...