The Pentagon’s push for “diversity” in combat units has been a disastrous experiment—prioritizing political correctness over battlefield readiness. Thanks to Obama-era policies, physical standards have been gutted to shoehorn women into elite combat roles, not because they meet the demands, but to satisfy a woke agenda. The result? A dangerous compromise on strength, endurance, and lethality—qualities that mean life or death in war.

The U.S. Marines’ own data proves how far standards have fallen. Lowering benchmarks to meet DEI quotas doesn’t empower women—it endangers them and their units. Combat isn’t about fairness; it’s about survival. Pretending otherwise is a deadly delusion.

Hegseth’s move to restore merit-based standards isn’t just necessary—it’s overdue. The military’s purpose is to win wars, not to serve as a social engineering project. When bullets fly, there’s no room for lowered expectations. The left’s obsession with gender quotas has no place where failure means body bags. It’s time to put combat effectiveness above woke ideology—before more lives are lost for the sake of political theater.