The Pentagon is shuttering an advisory group focused on women in the military just weeks after reinstating it.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth decided to terminate the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, according to a post on X Tuesday from Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson. Military Times reported last week that the group would be reinstated after being paused earlier this year.

“The Committee is focused on advancing a divisive feminist agenda that hurts combat readiness, while Secretary Hegseth has focused on advancing uniform, sex-neutral standards across the Department,” Wilson wrote.

Since taking over the Pentagon, Hegseth has pledged to bring “sex-neutral standards” to the military services, pointing to fitness tests and other physical performance tests

See Full Page