Hegseth to Revisit the US Military Woman in Combat Policy….

A policy that HAD been settled after women HAVE BEEN serving in combat roles for OVER a decade…

The Pentagon confirmed Tuesday it directed a review of women’s “effectiveness” in ground combat roles after nearly a decade of them serving in such jobs.

The move follows Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s September announcement that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from certain combat roles.

“The Institute for Defense Analyses is reviewing the effectiveness of having women in ground combat roles to ensure standards are met and the United States maintains the most lethal military,” press secretary Kingsley Wilson said in a statement to The Hill.

First reported by NPR, the review was directed in a seven-page memo sent by Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel Anthony Tata last month and calls for the Army and Marine Corps to submit data on ground combat troops’ readiness, training, performance, casualties, as well as command climate in units.

The effort is meant to determine the “operational effectiveness of ground combat units 10 years after the Department lifted all remaining restrictions on women serving in combat roles,” according to the memo, as reported by NPR.

Hegseth, in a highly unusual address to hundreds of the military’s top leaders in Quantico, Va., last year, declared new directives to ensure every combat position “returns to the highest male standard” of their service’s physical fitness test.

“If that means no women qualify for some combat jobs, so be it,” said Hegseth, an Army National Guard veteran…..

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Somebody should school the US Defense Sec of the women in the Ukraine Military ‘currently’ doing combat duty…

image….Marines assigned to a female engagement team conduct a security patrol in Marjah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, January 2011. (Cpl. Marionne T. Mangrum/Marine Corps)