The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of Matthew Lohmeier to be the Under Secretary of the Air Force on Thursday, 1 May 2025 at 9:30 am ET in room SD-G50, Dirksen Senate Office Building. Watch the hearing that was...
Marching Orders:
“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
Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member retired...
STARRS Town Hall | The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance: Fighting Back Against the Military Reforms of the President and SecDef
STARRS held its quarterly Town Hall meeting on 9 April 2025 with special guest speakers Sam Shoemate, a retired Army...
Latest News on the CRT/DEI/Woke Agenda in the Military
Implementing Policy on Prioritizing Military Excellence and Readiness
As the President of the United States clearly stated in Executive Order 14183, “Prioritizing Military Excellence and...
Sen. Banks Asks Gen. Tata How He Will ‘All Together Eliminate’ DEI Programming From Military
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Senator Jim Banks questioned Brig. General Anthony J. Tata...
Senators introduce the Reaffirming Every Servicemember’s Trust Over Religious Exemptions (RESTORE) Act
(Press Release) U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced...
New Chase Spears Podcast: Finding Your Spine
Retired Army PAO Chase Spears, who spoke on our last Town Hall “The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance:...
Drew Dix Podcast – Pushback within the Department of Defense
Drew Dix explores a critical threat to national defense. Is internal resistance threatening the mission? Watch: 00:00 Balls...
Duffy hangs replica of controversial USMMA Jesus painting in DOT office: ‘It looks beautiful’
By Jon Brown | Christian Post Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday that he hung a replica of...
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Enforce Transgender Military Ban
By Katelynn Richardson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Tuesday to...
SECDEF: “We are leaving wokeness and weakness behind”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth delivered a keynote address at Special Operations Forces Week 2025 at McDill AFB in...
Memorandum Directing General and Flag Officer Reductions
A memorandum directing general and flag officer reductions. Introducing the “Less Generals More GIs Policy.” pic.twitter...
How Department of Defense Educational Activity Staff Co-Opted Diversity Equity and Inclusion Protests
By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In early 2025, students at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools...
The China Threat Is Worse Than You Can Imagine
Book review of “Seven Things You Can’t Say About China” by Senator Tom Cotton. Reviewed by Capt. Brent Ramsey...
How wokeness infected even horse shows
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired United States administrative law judge 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force...
Response to Opinion Piece on USAFA civilian reduction plans
STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 wrote a letter to the editor of the Denver Post in reference...
Ignore the noise, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is doing a great job
By Brian Darling There is quite a bit of noise that is distracting from the real-world accomplishments of Defense Secretary...
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Gen Z Goes to West Point: How The Academy Should Adapt to Overcome Safetyism and Victimhood Culture
By Lt. Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret This paper was completed and submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master Teacher...
White House: “We are going to have a system of merit”
By Jessica Guynn | USA TODAY The White House put corporate America on notice that President Donald Trump plans to replace...
STARRS Presentation on April 28, 2025
STARRS President Ron Scott and Executive Vice President/General Counsel Mike Rose gave the presentation, “The American...
Statement: Providing Supplemental Remedies for Service Members and Veterans Negatively Impacted by the DOD Defunct Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vax Mandate
(DOD) Under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth, the Department of Defense has acted swiftly to support Service members and...
Former Air Force major who defied Biden vaccine mandate speaks out, applauds Hegseth
By Preston Mizell | Fox News A 16-year veteran and former Air Force major who voluntarily left the military after she...
Lohmeier defends qualifications for Air Force post as senators question past remarks
By Sandra Erwin | Space News Matthew Lohmeier, President Trump’s nominee for undersecretary of the Department of the Air...
SEN. TIM SHEEHY: 100 Days Of Putting Warfighters First
By Senator Tim Sheehy Former Navy Seal, USNA grad When I met with Pete Hegseth in early December ahead of his confirmation...
SECDEF Signed Memo to Provide Remedies for Service Members Hurt by Experimental COVID Vaccines – Now Those Affected Want to Know If Anyone Was Fired
By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On April 23, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum to direct the...
Lohmeier, Nominee for Under SECAF, Defends Record in Confirmation Hearing
By Greg Hadley | Air & Space Forces Magazine Matthew Lohmeier, who was fired from a Space Force squadron command just...
Drew Dix Podcast – Pushback From Within
Drew Dix on pushback from within, is it undermining America’s strength? He also talks about the pushback in the military...
Fired For Exposing The Biden-Era Military’s Marxist Drift, Former Officer Pledges To Restore ‘Accountability’ To The Force
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist A former fighter pilot previously fired for warning about the embrace of Marxism in...
The Military’s Back, Baby: Why America’s Youth Are Signing Up Again
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors The United States military is seeing its biggest recruitment surge in...
First 100 Days at the Department of Defense
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Senior Advisor Sean Parnell provided the following statement:...
Matthew Lohmeier Hearing for Under Secretary of the Air Force held 1 May 2025
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing to consider the nomination of Matthew Lohmeier to be the Under Secretary...
It is time to admit what the Marxist Left has done to black Americans
By Kendall Qualls, US Army Veteran President of TakeCharge STARRS Board of Advisors It is time for native black Americans...
STARRS President on Reclaim San Diego Radio Show
Col. Ron Scott, USAF ret, President & CEO of STARRS was interviewed on Reclaim San Diego radio show while he and STARRS...
When do the Court Martials Begin?
By Dr. Robert Malone, MD | Malone News Substack I never thought I would see the day come when a high-level official in the...
Secretary of Defense Hegseth Orders Military Medical Standards Review
By Guy D. McCardle | SOFREP Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has officially ordered a full-spectrum review of the U.S...
LETTER: Message sent to USAFA Cadets
A letter to the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette: Last week I was at the 10th Medical Group Clinic at the Air Force...
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...
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...
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
Cheating Without Consequences: The Rise and Tolerance of Mass Cheating at America’s Military Academies
There’s no more DEI at DOD, watchdog finds
Pentagon Review of Close Combat Training Standards Is Long Overdue
GAO Report: DEI Workforce Reductions at DOD
Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools
Army suspends commander after Trump, Vance, Hegseth vanish from command board
LETTER: USAFA Mission Statement
Army and Air Force libraries are ordered to review books for DEI material
Fired Insubordinate Officers Reveal Massive U.S. Military Resentment Against Elected Civilian Command
The Pentagon Must Go on the Offensive to Defeat Politicized Officers
The Fight Against Race-Based Admissions at the US Naval Academy
Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms
Drew Dix Podcast – Women in the Military
Service Members Separated for Rejecting COVID Vaccine Can Be Reinstated, But There’s a Big Catch That Has Many Refusing
Attorney blasts Merchant Marine midshipmen as ‘Christian nationalist insects’ for cheering Jesus painting
Cleaning traitors out of the military
Wrong, Colonel, the Concerns Are Yours!
Army Enlisted Academy Bars Students from Writing About Women and Minorities
Active-Duty Air Force Major is Being Forced to Go Without Pay ‘Indefinitely’ for Taking a Religious and Medical Objection to the Flu Vaccine
STARRS Podcasts
Open Letters
Air Force / Air Force Academy
Conservative watchdog compiles list of ‘woke ideologues’ in military for Pete Hegseth to purge
By Ryan King | New York Post A conservative watchdog group has compiled a list of “woke ideologues” for Department of...
President Trump Appoints New Members to Three Service Academy Board of Visitors
After removing members of USAFA, USMA and USNA Board of Visitors appointed by Biden, President Trump named their...
Army / West Point
Two U.S. service academies end minor in diversity and inclusion
By Tate Miller | The Center Square West Point Military Academy and the Air Force Academy have both ended their “Diversity...
Memo Shows Extensive Taxpayer-Funded Treatments, Surgeries And Exceptions Offered To Transgender Servicemembers
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Newly revealed policy guidance for the U.S. Army details the extensive...
Navy / Naval Academy
Rear Adm. Yvette Davids Nominated as Next Naval Academy Superintendent
Rear Adm. Yvette Davids has been nominated to serve as the next superintendent of the Naval Academy, USNI News has learned...
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Phillip J. Keuhlen, CDR, USN (Ret), USNA ’71 There is a misunderstanding that...