The U.S. military will impose the “highest male standard” for all combat roles in each service branch, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced during his Tuesday morning speech to hundreds of generals and admirals at Quantico, Va.

“At my direction, each service will ensure that every requirement for every combat MOS [military occupational specialty], for every designated combat arms position, returns to the highest male standard only, because this job is life or death, standards must be met, and not just met — at every level, we should seek to exceed the standard, to push the envelope, to compete,” Hegseth told the attendees at the event.

“It’s common sense and core to who we are and what we do. It should be in our DNA,” he added.

While the move does not directly call for fewer women t

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