SECDEF Initiates Military Standards Review
SECDEF Pete “Knife Hand” Hegseth
“Because in those ground combat roles, what is true is that the weight of the ruck on your back does not change. The weight of the 155 round that you have to carry does not change. The weight of the 240-Bravo machine gun you might have to carry does not change.”
Pete Hegseth
Exclusive–Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Orders Force-Wide Review of Existing Fitness and Grooming Standards
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday ordered a department-wide review of existing standards for each military branch on physical fitness, body composition, and grooming — including on beards, Breitbart News has exclusively learned.
“We must remain vigilant in maintaining the standards that enable the men and women of our military to protect the American people and our homeland as the world’s most lethal and effective fighting force,” Hegseth said in a March 12, 2025, memorandum ordering the review.
Rapid Force Wide Review of Military Standards
If it doesn’t contribute to readiness, standards, meritocracy, and lethality it’s history. On another note, recruitment numbers have recently soared. Cause and effect.
Category: Big Pentagon
Sounds good to me
But, but, diversity is our strenghtz!
Without DEI hires, how can we winz?
Mr. High and Tight has entered the chat…
“What’s up bitches, miss me?”
I wore a high and tight in the Air Force from 93 to retirement in 08, it was so damn easy to maintain and cool in the summer.
I remember when my dad was in the Air Force and they weren’t authorized for some reason.
Things change……
Mike
USAF Retired
I’ve worn a high and tight since 1986. Add a flat top in 1989 and a bald-in-back starting around (garbled and unreadable). Ten months into retirement it’s still a high and tight flat top. And it won’t change since that’s the only style I know how to cut. (Saved a lot of cash since 1996!)
There’s a reason my broken-down 73-year-old carcass can’t serve.
If an individual’s 20-year-old carcass can’t serve either, they need outta there.
Make America Deadly Again
I’m stealing that!!
Pete gonna “clean up their mess”. Good!
No more bearded lady’s?
That meme must be tongue-in-cheek, knowing that Werner von Braun received the Knight’s Cross of the War Merit Cross with Swords for his Peenemünde work.
My late Landladies cousin who lived next door was 12 years old and worked on the Peenemunde grounds carrying explosives My landlady and her cousin survived the war but my landlady lost her family. Her Cousin who was Jewish lived in Paris and their was a Waffen SS Oficer in love with her and he got the girl out of the country. Don’t know what happened to him.
Interesting history.
Formal Award Document to von Braun
Like a BSM for supporting things in other countries?
Non-combat DSC.
Also given out for Holocaust-type activities as an Iron Cross (combat version) required getting shot at and/or leading folk getting shot at.
Iron Coffins written by Herbert Werner lived in Florida and passed a number of years ago. A U-Boot crewmember lived in Oceanside NY the town next to mine. Another U-Boot skipper moved to the states and his son joined the Air Force and most likely retired as a pilot. A U-Boot crew member who wound up on a coast guard or Navy tin can after their Sub was captured was lying on the deck and a crew member was checking out the guys wallet and saw a pic of him with a shot deer so they hit it off and the men exchanged addresses and after the war, each one would go back and forth to Germany and the US. Both passed away at almost the same time and thats a little history.
Only 25% of U-boat dudes survived the war. He beat the odds– glad the two of them got to be friends for years afterward.
How about when we reset the economy we go back to buying American instead of Russian made stuff with their curious standards of production.
Hell, this probably deserves its own column.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/armor-plates-military-russia-inspection-b2713261.html
wait people cutting corners and an entire company owned by Russians (in the US) possibly aware of this until they get caught and act like it is news to them…say it isn’t so!
Regarding beards:
Good.
The military equivalent of “working from home”.
“But, but, but, he’s not qualified to be SECDEF!” Stomps heel and whirls about in a huff.
Pentagon critical Milley’s weight…
https://www.yahoo.com/news/pentagon-calls-mark-milley-corpulent-160148545.html