"Tata requested Army and Marine Corps leaders to provide data on the readiness, training, performance, casualties and command climate of ground combat units and personnel. The services are to provide points of contact no later than Jan. 15 to the Institute for Defense Analyses, a nonprofit corporation that assists the government on national security issues. The memo says the data should include "all available metrics describing that individual's readiness and ability to deploy (including physical, medical, and other measures of ability to deploy.)""
"But logic-and women-continue to have no place in Hegseth's military. Speaking to NPR, Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson said the study will make sure the U.S. "maintains the most lethal military." (Not a flex.) "Our standards for combat arms positions will be elite uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn't care if you're a man or a woman.""
Pete Hegseth ordered a six-month review of several thousand women assigned to ground combat positions to assess operational effectiveness and integration. The review stems from a seven-page memo by Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel Anthony Tata examining ground combat units ten years after lifting restrictions on women in combat. The memo asks Army and Marine Corps leaders for any internal research on integration and requests data on readiness, training, performance, casualties, and command climate. Services must provide points of contact by Jan. 15 to the Institute for Defense Analyses and include physical, medical, and other deployability metrics. Pentagon officials framed the study as ensuring lethality and sex-neutral standards for combat arms.
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