"There, the former Fox personality and National Guard veteran postured in front of an enormous American flag and lectured his audience on grooming standards and more. Troops will have to meet a "male level" for physical standards, and there would be no more "fat generals." If women cannot meet those standards, he said, "so be it ... That is not the intent, but it could be the result.""
"But there's no reason to take Hegseth at his word. He's railed against women in combat roles for years, and this week, his speech betrayed an obvious fixation on gender. "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."
"As journalist Jasper Craven reported in a recent piece for The Baffler, Hegseth has defined himself in opposition to women since he was an undergraduate at Princeton. According to a friend who knew Hegseth during his time in ROTC, the future Pentagon leader feared women "didn't have the ability, if he was shot, to pick him up and carry him off the battlefield. That rubbed him the wrong way.""
Pete Hegseth convened a meeting at Quantico where hundreds of military commanders gathered. He lectured on grooming and announced troops must meet a "male level" for physical standards, declaring there would be no more "fat generals" and saying that if women cannot meet those standards "so be it ... That is not the intent, but it could be the result." Hegseth has long opposed women in combat and reportedly feared women "didn't have the ability, if he was shot, to pick him up and carry him off the battlefield." He reveres special operators, defends some against war-crimes accusations, and blames "woke" standards for weakening the military.
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