# 2025-02178: New Order Focuses Military on Fitness and Core Readiness

2025-02178, Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-02-03, effective 2025-01-27 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02178
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-02178
- Title: Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 8757
- Published: 2025-02-03
- Effective: 2025-01-27
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

New Order Focuses Military on Fitness and Core Readiness

## Summary

This new order focuses on keeping the U.S. military strong and ready by making sure all service members meet strict mental and physical health standards. It affects anyone wanting to join or stay in the military, especially regarding rules about gender identity and medical fitness. These changes start right away and aim to keep our troops sharp, disciplined, and ready to protect the nation without extra costs.

## Effects PRIA read

- Stricter medical and mental fitness rules: cost, high. If you want to join or stay in the U.S. Armed Forces, the Order requires high medical and mental health standards. It says conditions that require substantial medication or treatment, bipolar and related disorders, eating disorders, suicidality, and prior psychiatric hospitalization are incompatibl…
- Ban on gender-identity-based acceptance: cost, high. The Order states that expressing a gender identity different from an individual's sex cannot satisfy military standards and that the policy is inconsistent with medical, surgical, and mental health constraints tied to gender dysphoria. The Secretary must issue directives ending "invented and identi…
- Limits on shared sleeping, changing, bathing facilities: cost, medium. Except for extraordinary operational necessity, the Order directs that males shall not use sleeping, changing, or bathing facilities designated for females, and females shall not use facilities designated for males. This restriction is required by the Order as part of implementing its policy.
- Revocation of prior inclusive service policies: cost, high. The Order revokes Executive Order 14004 (Enabling All Qualified Americans To Serve Their Country in Uniform) and directs that all policies, directives, and guidance issued under EO 14004 be rescinded to the extent they are inconsistent with this Order. The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of…

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## Sources
- [2025-02178 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/03/2025-02178/prioritizing-military-excellence-and-readiness)
- [2025-02178 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-02-03/pdf/2025-02178.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02178 (as of 2026-11-04).