Pete Hegseth said he now supports women serving in combat roles so long as they meet the same standards as men -- a policy ...

All combat roles in the U.S. military were opened to women by then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in January 2013. Two years later, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter lifted all gender-based ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s new defense secretary pick, has dismissed the role of women in combat roles within ... then-defense secretary Ash Carter Ash Carter announced that ...

Hegseth’s view on women in combat reflects much of the debate over the past nine years, in the wake of then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter’s order in late 2015 that the military open all ...

President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom on Saturday to two Harvard affiliates — former U.S. Defense Secretary and ...