Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin defended women serving in the military and, specifically in combat roles, amid growing ...

From late 2024 onward, a claim circulated online that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said women should not serve in military combat roles. Shortly after President Donald Trump nominated him for ...

The first three female rangers in 2015, from left: Capt. Kristen Griest, Maj. Lisa Jaster and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver. (Photo by Capt. Olivia Cobiskey-Haftmann/Office of the Secretary of Defense Public ...

WASHINGTON — As Pete Hegseth faces the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday during his confirmation hearing to lead the Defense Department, his divisive views on women serving in combat are ...

Aranjot Kaur has always been a fighter. An accomplished mixed martial arts (MMA) athlete in India with a 3-0 record and national championship, Kaur began training at 14. She attributes much of her ...

Ten years ago, amid sometimes bitter debate, the first women began the Army's notoriously hard Ranger infantry training program. The same year, combat jobs across the military were opened to female ...

When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered all top brass to assemble in Quantico in September, he declared women could either meet male standards for combat roles or get cut. Strong message, except ...

The bigger picture, as raised by the second question and ignored during the Hegseth hearings, concerns the realities of military recruitment. No one in his—or her—right mind is going to voluntarily ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — News 4 celebrates Women’s History Month by recognizing remarkable women in Western New York. The 2025 campaign concludes with Monica Lynch of Buffalo — a mother, disabled combat ...

I spend a lot of time watching people die. Not in an abstract or academic sense. I mean in drone footage—kill videos, four‑K streams of a human being’s last moments. I watch them because it keeps my ...