STARRS received this new photo and comment as a follow-on to the previous photo L Todd Wood, USAFA ’86, wrote a story on: Air Force Academy Female Insubordination Threatens Secretary Of War During Global Conflict – Former Superintendent Lt Gen Michelle Johnson Reportedly Leads Charge Against ‘Old White Men’
“The fellow in the blue A jacket is Martin France, class of 81. O-7 retired. Former head of the Astronautical Engineering Dept at the Air Force Academy.
He actively protests USAFA, the USAF, and the current administration.
My guess is he created this banner that was displayed during the 50 years of women at the service academies.
His behavior politicized and demeaned women who served.”
Here are articles about his leftwing activism, including him protesting in front of USAFA–in his uniform–for transgender cadets and support for Antifa. It makes sense that he was the one who would have made the controversial banner that tainted the special event on the USAFA campus.
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Soils His Uniform to Defend Trans Ideology in the Military
Retired Air Force Academy Professor Brig. General: “We are ANTIFA”
Here’s another photo of Marty France provided to STARRS.
He is a retired US Air Force Brig. General who is “Anti-War”??? AND airing his flag rank to protest against the Commander-in-Chief.
France taught at the US Air Force Academy for a long time.
What was the effect of an anti-war officer there on cadets? This?
USAF 2nd LT: “It’s thanks to the Air Force Academy that I currently have an anti-war stance.”
And now other cadets at USAFA are seeing him and some other women openly dismiss and ridicule their chain of command: the Secretary of War.
A female grad at the event had this to say about the banner:
Retired Army PAO Major Chase Spears, PhD says France is working as a contractor for the Space Force:
2/6 General France appears to hold strong feelings about President Trump and mixes his rank as a retired senior officer with radical transgender iconography at protests. pic.twitter.com/p3WvKoKRKh
— Chase Spears (@DrChaseSpears) April 22, 2026
4/6 One of General France’s essays came the month after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and blasted the Air Force Academy for allowing a @TPUSA chapter on base.
Though France rightly acknowledged Kirk’s death as horrific, he regurgitated the usual talking points cited by… pic.twitter.com/pWwRscYg0O
— Chase Spears (@DrChaseSpears) April 22, 2026
6/6 As Morton Blackwell wrote in his rules of leadership, Personnel is Policy. For every visible revolutionary activist in the force, there are many more taking a route of lower profile.
To leave this unaddressed is a certain path to defeat in our time, and sentencing our…
— Chase Spears (@DrChaseSpears) April 22, 2026
FULL TEXT: 6/6 As Morton Blackwell wrote in his rules of leadership, Personnel is Policy. For every visible revolutionary activist in the force, there are many more taking a route of lower profile.
To leave this unaddressed is a certain path to defeat in our time, and sentencing our descendants to a horrific regime of totalitarianism.
A house divided cannot stand.
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It is a shame that a left-wing activist would cause controversy on an event like this, but it exposes a more troubling worry that his radical leftwing ideology agenda tainted cadets for many years. What would a cadet, who knows they are attending a war academy preparing them to lead airman in battle, think about a USAFA professor who is “anti-war” and openly oppose the chain of command: the Secretary of War and Commander in Chief?
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