Pete Hegseth’s demand that troops be fit


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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he'd summoned to Washington has mystified and outraged critics who think his obsession with physical fitness is out-of-date at best and ridiculous at worst.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…