Hegseth reignites battle over women's role in military

[4th]

Hegseth reignites battle over women’s role in military
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5534095-hegeth-women-combat-standards/

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s assertion Tuesday that newly proposed military fitness standards may exclude women from certain combat roles has reignited fears about his approach to women in the armed forces.

In a highly unusual address to hundreds of the military’s top leaders in Quantico, Va., Hegseth 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,” he said, though he stressed that the military will continue to welcome women into its ranks.

“I don’t want my son serving alongside troops who are out of shape, or in combat units with females who can’t meet the same combat arms physical standards as men,” he said. “This job is life and death. Standards must be met.”

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I figured this was coming, but ...
Already went after the trans military people.
I expected they'd go after gay military people next, but maybe this will be easier for them?

[hlthe2b]

1. Hate is a self-defeating emotion... but how to feel about these disgusting, ignorant, bigoted

horrifically misogynistic cretins?

[Walleye]

2. I think we are allowed to hate rapists. Especially unrepentant ones.

[Botany]

3. Hog's Breath is a sexist pig. His own mother told him that when he was getting a divorce from his 1st wife

As Sec. of Defense he fired the Sec. of the Navy and the Commander of the Coast Guard both of
whom are women. He said that they had achieved such high ranks was because of “wokeness.”
The Sec. of the Navy, Franchetti, graduated at or near the top of her class @ Annapolis, was X O
on ship, later she was captain of that ship, then commander of string of ships, then the # 2 person
on aircraft carrier then the commander of the carrier and its supporting ships, after which she was
in charge of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet, and then Biden made her Sec. of the Navy. Hog’s Breath
fired her ASAP.

Trump at that same time fired the head of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Brown who is black.



https://www.axios.com/2025/04/08/trump-hegseth-fires-female-military-leader-shoshana-chatfield

[haele]

4. He's also going to lose men.

He wants to lose 1/3 of the military?
Who is he going to man the modern systems he needs to actually win.his wars?
Oh, right.
He's stuck in Napoleonic War "swarm the battlefield or the city" warfare mentality.
Lethality means being able to defeat dummies in hand to hand combat, or being able to do "kung fu fighting" and parkour to take on multiple enemy minions attacking you all at once like some sort of super soldier.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

5. Two-faced Heg-Set (Set: Egyptian Dept. of War!) has no problem with women paying taxes to support the military.

Kinda like Christianity being okey-dokey accepting money from people it despises/trashes.