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Opinion | Pete Hegseth reveals his ideas on women in combat with new test requirement

Last week, the U.S. Army announced new fitness standards in line with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s orders to make the standards for women and men in combat roles the same. Like much of Hegseth’s ...
Sacramento State University

Women of Sac State’s Combat U fight stereotypes, bring home championships

Aranjot Kaur has always been a fighter. An accomplished mixed martial arts (MMA) athlete in India with a 3-0 record and national championship, Kaur began training at 14. She attributes much of her ...
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Beards, fitness and women in combat: Hegseth orders review of military standards

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has called for all military branches to review standards for shaving, fitness and troops in combat roles. In a memo last week, Hegseth directed the secretaries to ...
Religion News Service on MSN

Orthodox Jewish women make history in special Israeli combat unit

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to ...
Time

Women in Combat: Listening to Those Who Have Been There

When I heard Leon Panetta’s announcement about lifting the combat restrictions on women in the military, I immediately thought of former Army National Guard Sergeant Paigh Bumgarner. Bumgarner had ...
Times of San Diego

Women have served in combat roles for a decade; the Pentagon is reopening the debate

The first three female rangers in 2015, from left: Capt. Kristen Griest, Maj. Lisa Jaster and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver. (Photo by Capt. Olivia Cobiskey-Haftmann/Office of the Secretary of Defense Public ...
Time

Women in Combat: A Mirror of Society?

While I strongly support the military’s decision to allow women to hold combat and special ops positions, I am concerned that the military thinks this will substantially cut back on sexual assaults by ...

Ronda Rousey Says Women in Combat Sports Earn More Respect Because of Her Impact

For years, women struggled to find a spotlight in combat sports, often pushed to the margins or treated as an afterthought in ...
The Atlantic

The Worst Argument Against Women in Combat Yet: They're Sad Rape Victims

We've heard a lot of arguments against women in combat: They wouldn't be able lift injured male soldiers. (Not true.) They don't have the killer instinct. (Most people don't.) They are anatomically ...
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Should women be in combat?

Women weren’t allowed to officially serve in direct ground combat jobs when Emelie Vanasse started her ROTC program at George Washington University. Instead, she studied biology — but it still ...
New York Post

Hegseth orders same physical requirements for men, women in combat roles, says US ‘allowed standards to slip’

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a memo Monday ordering men and women to meet the same physical fitness requirements if they want to serve in combat roles, saying the Pentagon had “allowed ...