While Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth isn’t being hounded by the mainstream media, who desperately want to get rid of him, he’s busy changing standards in the military after former President Joe Biden focused more on making our forces woke than making them lethal.
According to a recent report from the Military Times, approximately 68 percent of our National Guard and reserves are overweight—and Hegseth is not happy about that:
Completely unacceptable.
This is what happens when standards are IGNORED — and this is what we are changing. REAL fitness & weight standards are here.
We will be FIT, not FAT. pic.twitter.com/KWMlFbS1c8
— Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth) April 25, 2025
The study showed that the excess bloat hurts our forces’ readiness:
More than two-thirds of Guard and Reserve troops are overweight, potentially limiting their readiness and ability to…