Pete Hegseth, nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as Defense secretary, recently said he opposes women serving in combat roles in the U.S. military. “I’m straight up just saying ...

The Army veteran and one-time Fox News Channel host who could be the country’s next defense secretary has strong views on a decade of women serving in combat positions in the U.S. military ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, Pete Hegseth, is facing a firestorm of backlash for voicing his belief that women should not serve in military combat roles.

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Former Fox News commentator and Army National Guard veteran Pete Hegseth said on a recent podcast that “I’m straight up saying we should not have women in combat roles,” raising fears among ...

A few years later in 2015, former Defense Secretary Ash Carter opened all military combat positions to female service members. Such progress has allowed women to fill about 220,000 jobs previously ...

When Elisa Smithers was deployed to Iraq in 2005, there was a ban on women serving in ground combat operations. Smithers was a “female searcher” with the National Guard and was attached to an ...

The first cohort of women will enlist in the IDF's religious women-only combat unit within the Combat Intelligence Corps, the organization Ohr Torah Stone announced on Tuesday. According to the ...

That's because Hegseth believes "we should not have women in combat roles." But if Hegseth's beliefs stem from concerns about women's combat-effectiveness, he is misguided. Women who serve are not ...

But senators in both parties have also expressed concern about another issue — Hegseth’s frequent comments that women should not serve in frontline military combat jobs. Pete Hegseth has spent ...

(Cpl. Marionne T. Mangrum/Marine Corps) Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday defended women in the military and their eligibility for combat roles, calling them “very courageous and very ...