Women in combat arms roles told Task & Purpose that the Pentagon’s latest review is frustrating after proving themselves for ...

Pentagon officials ordered a review of the “effectiveness” of women serving in combat after a ratcheting up of rhetoric around “sex neutral" fitness standards.

The review, outlined in a Pentagon memo obtained by NPR, comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told admirals and ...

All Marines in combat arms fields will soon have to meet the same standards on their Physical Fitness Test, or PFT, regardless of their gender, under a service-wide policy announced Thursday. The new ...

The military has now opened all jobs to women, but that doesn’t mean women are passing the required tests to make it. A female Marine officer, along with 33 men, failed to complete the Infantry ...

The Marine Corps should fully integrate women into platoons and institute mixed-gender drill instructor teams at its recruit depots, according to a newly released report by a Pentagon panel focused on ...

The Pentagon is mounting a six-month review of women in ground combat positions, according to a memo obtained by NPR.

The Marine Corps should train male and female recruits in gender-integrated platoons at both of its recruit depots and the Pentagon should adopt new polices to protect the careers of pregnant troops, ...

The bigger picture, as raised by the second question and ignored during the Hegseth hearings, concerns the realities of military recruitment. No one in his—or her—right mind is going to voluntarily ...

Marines serving in combat arms jobs will begin taking a gender-neutral Physical Fitness Test on Jan. 1, 2026. All Marines in combat arms fields will soon have to meet the same standards on their ...