{"id":3772,"date":"2025-10-14T23:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3772\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T23:11:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T23:11:17","slug":"texas-national-guard-sends-7-deployed-in-illinois-home-for-physical-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/3772\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas National Guard sends 7 deployed in Illinois home for physical fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/texas-national-guard-members-deploy-chicago-area\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas National Guard<\/a> sent seven members of its squad who had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/judge-ruling-on-national-guard-lawsuit-illinois-chicago\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deployed to Illinois<\/a> back to the Lone Star state over their physical fitness.<\/p>\n<p>The guard said it was because &#8220;they did not meet the mission requirements,&#8221; but the move followed reaction to photos appearing online showing troops that may be considered by some to be out of shape.<\/p>\n<p>The Guard and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are in agreement that physical standards are high for members of the military.<\/p>\n<p>In a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/trump-hegseth-military-leaders-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> September meeting<\/a> with hundreds of generals and admirals summoned from around the globe, Hegseth told military leaders he&#8217;s rolling out 10 new directives involving physical fitness, new grooming requirements and a return to &#8220;the highest male standard&#8221; for combat positions. <\/p>\n<p>Hegseth slammed what he said were &#8220;fat troops&#8221; and added &#8220;it&#8217;s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the world. It&#8217;s a bad look.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas National Guard sent seven members of its squad who had been deployed to Illinois back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1014,4203,3310,27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-3772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-illinois","9":"tag-national-guard-of-the-united-states","10":"tag-pete-hegseth","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}