Female drill sergeants will soon trade their upturned brims for the iconic, olive campaign hat long worn by their male ...

Based on what I've seen, heard and read, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has an agenda for the military beyond promoting ...

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 ...

Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the former Army vice chief of staff, said he is “concerned” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “attack on women” in the military on Sunday. “I’m concerned about what I ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced new military standards and gender rules for the United States military Tuesday ...

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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 ...

Serious people won't pay attention to you if your only objection to women serving in combat if you just say, "No sir, I don't like it!" So people with dated ideas about what women can do are forced to ...

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will lift the Pentagon's ban on women serving in combat, according to several news reports — even though women actually have been serving in war zones for years. "The ...

In 12 and a half minutes or less, you must: Run half a mile; scramble up a six-foot wall; lift 16 sandbags, each one roughly the weight of a 6-year-old child; drag a stretcher 100 meters; complete a ...