STARRS held its quarterly Town Hall meeting on 9 April 2025 with special guest speakers Sam Shoemate, a retired Army intelligence analyst, and Chase Spears, a retired Army Public Affairs Officer. They talked about the problem of active-duty military...
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“The President’s charge to me was to return the Defense Department to its warfighting mission at its core: warfighting, lethality, meritocracy, accountability and readiness."--Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth
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The Uniform Is Not Invincible: Firing Generals Is Critical to Restoring Military Lethality
By Will Thibeau, US Army veteran President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth relieved the chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
‘FIT, Not FAT!’: Pete Hegseth Promises Standard Overhaul After ‘Unacceptable’ Troop Fitness Report
By Virginia Kruta | The Daily Wire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised an overhaul of military physical fitness...
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on the Conclusion of Service of DOD Advisory Committee Members
(DOD) Yesterday, informed by the recently concluded 45-day review of DOD advisory committees, Secretary of Defense Pete...
Hegseth Directs Review of Equal Opportunity Complaint Process
By David Vergun | DOD News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum April 23 titled “Restoring Good Order...
How DEI took a sledgehammer to the US military’s war ethos
By Col. Mackubin Owens, USMC (ret) U.S. civil-military relations rest on a fundamental contradiction. The United States...
Rod Bishop and Sam Shoemate on Securing America
Frank Gaffney, host of Securing America on Real America’s Voice network, interviewed STARRS Chairman Rod Bishop and...
Trump Asks SCOTUS To Uphold His Ban On Transgender Troops In The Military
By Mary Margaret Olohan | The Daily Wire President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to...
DOD Branch Chief Vows to Resist Trump and Hegseth
James O’Keefe released a new undercover video of a Department of Defense Branch Chief denigrating the Commander-in...
Most Dem-Voting Federal Bureaucrats Say They Would Disobey ‘Legal’ Orders From Trump, Poll Shows
By Hudson Crozier | The Daily Caller News Foundation A new poll found that a majority of federal employees who previously...
Matthew Lohmeier Hearing for Under Secretary of the Air Force to be held 1 May 2025
The Senate Armed Services Committee has announced that the hearing to consider the nomination of Matthew Lohmeier to be the...
Trump Just Fired A Deadly Shot At DEI — And The Legacy Media Is Totally Ignoring It
By Natalie Sandoval | Daily Caller News Foundation Show of hands: who’d prefer his surgeon earn his degree by merit, not...
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
(White House Executive Order) By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United...
Air Force Academy’s Staff Cuts Unclear Amid Mass Resignations; Cadets Assured of World-Class Education
By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs News Gazette While the Air Force Academy sent a letter to incoming cadets early last week...
Defense Secretary Orders Additional Remedies, More Clarity on COVID-19 Reinstatements
By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News The defense secretary today signed a memorandum directing more clarity regarding the...
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New Anti-Hegseth Op Illustrates The Media’s Campaign To Protect The Pentagon Status Quo
DC Swamp monsters continuing their all-out war to maintain their control over the Pentagon. By Shawn Fleetwood | The...
Navy Scraps Biden-Era ‘Climate Action’ Plan, Returns Focus To Warfighting
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist The U.S. Navy officially scrapped a Biden-era “climate action” plan for the force on...
Hegseth Recaps 100 Days of DOD Accomplishments During Speech at War College
By Matthew Olay | DOD News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summarized the Defense Department’s accomplishments over the...
‘Striking’: DC appeals court interrogates Trump admin on Pentagon’s transgender military ban policy
By Haley Chi-Sing, Jake Gibson | Fox News A three-judge appeals panel in Washington, D.C., grilled the Trump administration...
Military Readiness, Not ‘Woke’ Politics, Must Come First
By Terence Hagans, US Army veteran The recent decision by a U.S. District judge to block President Donald J. Trump’s...
Biden Put Recruits at Risk to Increase Military Enlistment
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News To increase military enlistment numbers, the Biden Defense Department created a fat...
The cost of political mandates still haunts our armed forces
By Nico Melendez, Navy veteran The U.S. military prides itself on discipline, merit, and readiness. But when politics...
Transgender West Point Instructor Sues the Commander-in-Chief
This Times-Union article tells the story of a female who joined the Army and was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021...
DEI at Annapolis
By CDR Salamander, Substack In what was the last moment of reprieve for the agents of division inside the Annapolis...
Cheating Without Consequences: The Rise and Tolerance of Mass Cheating at America’s Military Academies
By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In March 2025, the U.S. Air Force Academy announced that nearly 100 cadets were under...
There’s no more DEI at DOD, watchdog finds
By Lauren Williams | Defense One The Pentagon has officially eliminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs, to...
Pentagon Review of Close Combat Training Standards Is Long Overdue
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Ten years have passed since the Department of Defense initiated...
GAO Report: DEI Workforce Reductions at DOD
(GAO) The Department of Defense made changes to its diversity, equity, and inclusion workforce, as required by a 2024 law...
Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools
More woke indoctrinated military kids news. Future soldiers?: By Leo Shane | Military Times The American Civil Liberties...
Army suspends commander after Trump, Vance, Hegseth vanish from command board
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News The commander of Fort McCoy was relieved of duty after the U.S. Army base failed to install...
LETTER: USAFA Mission Statement
Letter to the Editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette: This letter is in response to an April 17 article, “Air Force Academy...
Army and Air Force libraries are ordered to review books for DEI material
(AP) Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their stacks to find books related to diversity, equity and...
Fired Insubordinate Officers Reveal Massive U.S. Military Resentment Against Elected Civilian Command
By Cynical Publius, retired Army Colonel Follow him on X: @CynicalPublius There is a cancer in America’s military ranks, and...
The Pentagon Must Go on the Offensive to Defeat Politicized Officers
By Col. Kurt Schlichter, USA ret That Space Force colonel in command in Greenland – well, formerly in command in Greenland –...
The Fight Against Race-Based Admissions at the US Naval Academy
This is a monumental, in-depth investigation into race-based admissions at America’s elite military academies—and the...
Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms
By Lexi Lonas Cochran | The Hill Military academies could increasingly show what President Trump wants to see from public...
Drew Dix Podcast – Women in the Military
STARRS Board of Advisors member Drew Dix answers questions from last week’s Readiness episode and talks specifically...
Service Members Separated for Rejecting COVID Vaccine Can Be Reinstated, But There’s a Big Catch That Has Many Refusing
By Ole Braatelien | The Western Journal Service members separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine can now re-enlist, but...
Attorney blasts Merchant Marine midshipmen as ‘Christian nationalist insects’ for cheering Jesus painting
By Jon Brown | Christian Post An attorney from the nonprofit that pushed to relocate a historic Jesus painting at the U.S...
Cleaning traitors out of the military
By Mike McDaniel, USAF veteran It’s no secret that Barack Obama purged hundreds of officers from the military. These were...
Wrong, Colonel, the Concerns Are Yours!
By Kevin McCullough | Townhall If you grow up in a military family, like I did, you don’t just learn the rank...
Army Enlisted Academy Bars Students from Writing About Women and Minorities
In other words, students “must submit a paper free of DEI content.” Good. By Steve Beynon | Military.com The...
Active-Duty Air Force Major is Being Forced to Go Without Pay ‘Indefinitely’ for Taking a Religious and Medical Objection to the Flu Vaccine
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit After nearly 17 years of honorable service, an Air Force officer is facing administrative...
Objections to the COVID-19 Shot, Transgenderism, and Drag Queen Story Hour Got a Service Member Booted from the Navy
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Service members are facing many obstacles as they try to return to military service. Some...
Former U.S. Space Force Officer Wants to Serve His Country Again, But Who’s Going to Extend a Helping Hand?
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Retaliation for refusing the once-mandated COVID-19 shot no longer has a place in today’s U...
Secretary Sean Duffy Gives Energizing Speech at Merchant Marine Academy
Duffy received a standing ovation when he asserted, “Can we bring Jesus out of the basement?” By Daniel Bissell ...
Senior CIA Official Who Facilitated Biden’s Military COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Fired
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News Terry Adirim, a senior Central Intelligence Agency official and former senior defense...
USAFA and USMA end race consideration in admissions
By Nate Raymond | Reuters The U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor...
Pentagon Eliminates Woke Violations of Trump’s Executive Orders
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | The Daily Signal A senior Pentagon official ordered employees to cease all communications...
Hegseth quips ‘99.9%’ of DEI initiatives are gone from the military under Trump’s watch
By Diana Stancy | Fox News Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quipped that the Trump administration has wiped out “99...
Newt’s World: Rep. Wesley Hunt on Service to Country
Newt Gingrich talks with Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04, U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter pilot, about his...
Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies
Continuing saga of woke military kids in DoDEA schools, a legacy of the woke agenda pushed on them for so long: By Rebecca...
Workforce Acceleration & Recapitalization Initiative Organizational Review
New memo from Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg regarding DOD workforce optimization. “To ensure the...
Senate confirms Trump’s pick for chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff
By Mary Clare Jalonick | The Associated Press The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to become...
Military Met 2024 Recruit Contracting Goals, Plans for Repeat
By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force met their contracting goals for new...
Trump Administration Fires Female Vice Admiral Amid Widening Purge of Military Officers
Space Force Commander in Greenland Sent Out Email Breaking with Vice President Vance After His Visit
Reforming the Military’s Fitness Standards Is Vital, but Not the Only Step
Mixing Military and Politics
Response to USAFA Professor
DOD Welcomes Back Service Members Impacted by COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
Air Force Backtracks on Banning Personal Pronouns from Email Signatures because of NDAA
Tuberville’s proposal for academy athletes to go pro undermines duty
Naval Academy Superintendent’s Congressional Testimony Contradicts Facts About Race-Based Admissions
If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military
LETTERS: AFA cutting civilian staff; a very specific mission
How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It
STARRS Town Hall | The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance: Fighting Back Against the Military Reforms of the President and SecDef
U.S. Navy Invites Former Sailors to Apply for Reentry under Executive Order 14184
Air Force personnel INVOLUNTARILY DISCHARGED over vaccine mandate offered reinstatement
Air Force personnel who VOLUNTARILY LEFT over vaccine mandate offered path back
Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret
DOD Task Force to Assess Progress of DEI Elimination
List of DEI-Related Books Removed from Naval Academy Library
Let’s see the metrics and data re discrimination by race at USNA
STARRS Podcasts
Open Letters
Air Force / Air Force Academy
The Air Force’s “Diversity” Unseriousness
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Most readers know by now that for several...
We All Wear Green, We All Bleed Red, There is No Difference: Race-conscious Admissions Policies Have No Place at Our Military Academies
By Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 Abstract While the thousands upon thousands of dedicated military officers do not share the...
Army / West Point
The US Air Force Failed To Hit A Single Recruitment Goal This Year
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation The U.S. Air Force failed to meet its recruiting targets for enlisted...
4-Star General: Reject the Marxist march to insanity and thus the destruction of the United States
By General B.B. Bell, US Army ret | Patriot Post Dear Fellow Citizens, The upcoming national election is not about former...
Navy / Naval Academy
Navy SEALs Still Face ‘Religious Discrimination’ Even After Vaccine Mandate Overturned
Navy SEALs in a court battle with the Biden administration over its alleged failure to consider their religious exemption...
Navy Secretary Touts Ships as ‘Beacons’ for ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion’
The Navy Secretary touted its ships as “beacons in every port of call” for “diversity, equity, and inclusion,” in a message...