The president also ordered the Pentagon to end diversity programs, reinstate many service members dismissed for refusing the coronavirus vaccine and create a new missile defense system.

The order reinstates a policy from Trump's first term that prohibited trans people from enlisting and barred those already in the military from transitioning.

US President Donald Trump is expected to officially move to remove diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the defence department, one of several military-focused executive orders he is planning to sign on Monday. A second order will task US officials with formulating a policy on transgender troops.

U.S. President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Monday that eliminated diversity, equity and inclusion programs from the military, as well as reinstated military members forced out by vaccine mandates,

President Donald Trump signed two executive orders on Monday related to the military that will ban "radical gender ideology" and DEI initiatives from all branches and their academies.

President Trump signed four more executive orders that aim to reverse several Biden initiatives related to the military.

President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday to reshape the military with a focus on transgender service members, troops who were dismissed for refusing COVID-19 mandates and a missile defense shield.

President Trump signed executive orders that could reshape the management and composition of the U.S. military.

Trump had tried to impose a ban on transgender troops during his first term, but it was tangled up in the courts for years before being overturned by then-president Joe Biden shortly after he took office.