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  • Pete Hegseth’s demand that troops be fit — not fat — is essential to US military readiness

    10/05/2025 2:28:12 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 20 replies
    New York Post ^ | Oct. 3, 2025, 3:37 p.m. ET | Rich Lowry
    Doesn’t Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth realize that push-ups are passé? His speech to an audience of generals he’d summoned to Washington has mystified and outraged critics who think his obsession with physical fitness is out-of-date at best and ridiculous at worst.“Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations, or really any formation, and see fat troops,” Hegseth told the assembled brass. “Likewise, it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon.”“Today, at my direction, every member of the joint force, at every rank, is required to take a PT test twice a year,...