{"id":167448,"date":"2025-03-13T00:40:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T04:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=167448"},"modified":"2025-03-13T00:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T04:40:49","slug":"secdef-initiates-military-standards-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167448","title":{"rendered":"SECDEF Initiates Military Standards Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167449 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pete-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pete-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/pete-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>SECDEF Pete &#8220;Knife Hand&#8221; Hegseth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause in those ground combat roles, what is true is that the weight of the ruck on your back does not change. The weight of the 155 round that you have to carry does not change. The weight of the 240-Bravo machine gun you might have to carry does not change.\u201d<br \/>\nPete Hegseth<\/p>\n<h3>Exclusive\u2013Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Force-Wide Review of Existing Fitness and Grooming Standards<\/h3>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a department-wide review of existing standards for each military branch on physical fitness, body composition, and grooming \u2014 including on beards, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that enable the men and women of our military to protect the American people and our homeland as the world\u2019s most lethal and effective fighting force,\u201d Hegseth said in a March 12, 2025, memorandum ordering the review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2025\/03\/12\/exclusive-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth-orders-force-wide-review-of-existing-fitness-and-grooming-standards\/\">Breitbart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/838578334\/Rapid-Force-Wide-Review-of-Military-Standards#from_embed\">Rapid Force Wide Review of Military Standards<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t contribute to readiness, standards, meritocracy, and lethality it&#8217;s history. On another note, recruitment numbers have recently soared. Cause and effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SECDEF Pete &#8220;Knife Hand&#8221; Hegseth \u201cBecause in those ground combat roles, what is true is that &hellip; <a title=\"SECDEF Initiates Military Standards Review\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=167448\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SECDEF Initiates Military Standards Review<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":167449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}