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January 1, Pentagon Challenges The Atlantic’s Credibility Over Edited Statement
Defense Department Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson didn’t hold back against The Atlantic for writing a big, unfair article. The article claimed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is changing rules to keep women out of the military.
Missy Ryan, a writer from The Atlantic, shared the article on X with a dramatic line about Hegseth’s “War on Woke.” She said a team was checking fitness and combat standards and might change a study that let women take combat roles 10 years ago.
The article suggested that Hegseth was so focused on fighting “woke” culture that he was undoing all the “progress” that let women serve in combat roles.
Wilson made fun of The Atlantic for changing their headline to be even more “woke.” The first headline asked if Hegseth was sidelining women, while the new one accused him of trying to keep women out of combat through a backdoor method.
In another post, Wilson said they didn’t include her full comment in the story because it would have proven their article wrong. She shared the whole comment, saying that past leadership ignored important military standards. But now, under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the military is focusing on what’s important: strong standards for everyone, man or woman. She said we shouldn’t change our high standards for any political reason, because that’s just good old common sense.
The only bit of Wilson’s full statement that was used in the article talked about having strong, fair standards for combat roles, reminding everyone that the weight of a backpack doesn’t care who carries it.
Wyatt Matters!
It’s essential to focus on fairness and maintaining strong standards in the military. When rules change for combat roles, we should think about what truly matters: everyone being able to meet the demands of the job, whether they’re a man or a woman. It’s not about keeping anyone out; it’s about ensuring all soldiers can do their jobs safely and well. High standards help make sure our military is ready for anything.
There has been some confusion about recent changes, and it’s important to clear things up. Some people think that by focusing on strong standards, there’s a plan to push women out of the military. That’s not true. We just need to make sure the standards are the best they can be for everyone. This isn’t about politics; it’s about ensuring fairness and safety for all soldiers. It’s crucial that everyone who wants to serve has the ability and training to succeed.
It’s also important to listen to different viewpoints and be honest about what’s going on. When people share only parts of a story, it can create misunderstandings. By being clear and open about why strong standards are important, we can ensure everyone understands the real goal is a strong, fair military where capable men and women can thrive equally.
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James E. Wilson
July 14, 2025 at 7:13 am
It’s time to challenge and expose poor reporting of news. And the news people who are guilty of incompetent reporting should be publicly named for everyone to see.
dennodogg
July 14, 2025 at 8:29 am
“The Atlantic”…….enough said. These armchair generals that tell stories and think that not putting unqualified women or men into combat is some sort of inequality, obviously have never been there. This is not a game, karen.
Ghost/Anarchist Mateo Morral
July 18, 2025 at 12:04 pm
Yes the wonderful, highly educated commentators of ‘advice’ columns and ‘opinion’ pieces. Really controversial if these magazines are capable of causing serious duress among the public readers but I am just about at wits end at having to read journalistic opinion/observation about a subject they have NO experience in, NO appropriate interviewed source from, and STILL get to publish their columns as if their some value source of ‘trust us’ our views are valid.
Waldo Pita
July 14, 2025 at 8:37 am
Question: Whose body is stronger, takes more punishment, can run longer & faster, and can carry heavy backpacks for several miles? Male or Female???? The one you pick should be the group that makes up our fighting force. The other sex should be utilized as a support group – If there is a problem with this – send Text to the Goddess for corrective action
Ghost/Anarchist Mateo Morral
July 18, 2025 at 12:25 pm
Oh No! *Waldo Pita * what would ‘surgeons assistant’ Mary Walker, (Medal of Honor recipient during g the U.S. Civil War—- later retracted), have to say, were she alive, about YOU downgrading women’s contributions and performance in America’s fighting forces?!?! I’m a U.S. Army Veteran and I’ve seen a lot of ability and accomplishment from female soldiers, but the bad outweighs the good by FAR. They Can’t meet the same heavy-weight standards, are slow to perform/react, NOT question authority when in Combat defense/react-to-attack,(more prone to panic and ‘crumple-up/fetal-position out of terror), They have an IMMENSE hard time ‘turning-off-emotion’ for a few minutes/hours/days and thinking, deliberating, reacting and being ‘cold-as-a-stone’ in taking an enemy life.Females are terrible on long-range missions/patrols that last weeks, fist ones with hygiene complaints and low-morale. Also, I’ll call out the uncomfortable truth that others won’t, males and females cannot work well together when there is constant sexual distractions/social complications. This is NOT just a military problem. The four ‘sexual-revolutions’ of the 20th Century did a lot of DAMAGE in the work-force for men & women—Law offices definitely DIDN’T help.
Harry
July 14, 2025 at 8:41 am
The Atlantic should just be in the Atlantic Ocean!
Justify able for a rag news outlet.
Lawrence M Gibbs
July 14, 2025 at 11:41 am
Until those individuals criticizing gender inequality are equally vocal about requiring women by law to register with selective service, like men have been required to do once turning 18, their efforts are half-hearted and incomplete. I believe historically the fitness standards were more about minimizing health risk for insurability. DoD wants to minimize financial risk of medical insurability if it can.
Bart Seals
July 14, 2025 at 12:11 pm
There are those who say that equal physical standards discriminate against women. No, these should be the minimal standards for all of our warfighters. This is what true equality looks like and not changing the standards to allow women to serve. By the way, there are actually some men who don’t qualify.
Ghost/Anarchist Mateo Morral
July 18, 2025 at 12:38 pm
I myself am a Army Veteran, (Global-War-on-Terror— third Gulf War as it is also called), and I personally, from my observations, think that physical standard, strength and stamina and speed ability should be an absolute eliminator for becoming soldiers—then again…this even would have dismissed me as well. It is a tough answer for what physical traits a soldier should be as a requirement. You’re either going to have a ‘tiny’ performance-elite of 281,000/ (maybe 420,000), soldiers who achieve ALL requirements or you’ll have 1million/ (?- how many more you want to accept with low requirements). I’m more for making it as grueling, difficult as possible so taxpayers money isn’t wasted and America remains a military force to be emulated and feared.