Bayonet training has mostly been replaced in US Army basic training by other hand-to-hand combat, but Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” may have led to its return.

FORT JACKSON, S.C.FORT JACKSON, S.C. — New soldiers are grunting through the kind of stretches and twists found in “ab blaster” classes at suburban gyms as the Army revamps its basic training regimen ...