Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the comprehensive review of physical fitness standards is aimed at eliminating gender-based disparities in physical requirements for combat positions, a

Service secretaries now have 60 days to submit their proposed combat-role standards, and military branches will then be required to implement the changes within six months.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already.