“We should not have women in combat roles”

Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson wrote in an email to NPR that the study is to “ensure standards are met and the United States maintains the most lethal military. 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. Under (Defense) Secretary (Pete) Hegseth, the Department of War’s [sic] will not compromise standards to satisfy quotas or an ideological agenda—this is common sense.”