By Col. Phil Williams, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a new directive that...
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Response to USAFA Professor
This is a response the STARRS Chairman gave to a long post on Facebook written by an assistant professor of English at USAFA...
DOD Welcomes Back Service Members Impacted by COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
(DOD) The Defense Department is taking significant steps to reinstate service members who were discharged due to the now...
Air Force Backtracks on Banning Personal Pronouns from Email Signatures because of NDAA
This shows the need to codify the new Executive Orders into law: By Thomas Novelly | Military.com The Air Force says...
Tuberville’s proposal for academy athletes to go pro undermines duty
By Lt. Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret. Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently said he would pursue new rules in this year’s National...
Naval Academy Superintendent’s Congressional Testimony Contradicts Facts About Race-Based Admissions
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News On March 26, the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel required...
If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently...
LETTERS: AFA cutting civilian staff; a very specific mission
STARRS President Ron Scott wrote a letter to the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette in response to an article: AFA...
How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Since returning to office, President Trump has taken significant action to...
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...
U.S. Navy Invites Former Sailors to Apply for Reentry under Executive Order 14184
(Dept of Navy) The United States Navy is inviting former Sailors who voluntarily left the service or allowed their service...
Air Force personnel INVOLUNTARILY DISCHARGED over vaccine mandate offered reinstatement
(Dept of Air Force) The Department of Defense is offering a pathway for reinstatement for service members involuntarily...
Air Force personnel who VOLUNTARILY LEFT over vaccine mandate offered path back
(Dept of Air Force) The Department of Defense is offering a path back to service for military personnel who voluntarily...
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...
DOD Task Force to Assess Progress of DEI Elimination
By Matthew Olay | DOD News – Pentagon A nine-member Defense Department task force headed by Jules W. Hurst III, an...
List of DEI-Related Books Removed from Naval Academy Library
In its ongoing gaslighting of the American public, the legacy news media feigned angst that the Naval Academy removed DEI...
Let’s see the metrics and data re discrimination by race at USNA
By Commander Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack As everyone may have noticed, DivThu are few and far between recently...
After Action Report on Academy Superintendents Hearing
Prepared by members of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates Here is a summary of the issues raised by Senators and...
Drew Dix on Military Readiness and the Warrior Ethos
STARRS Board of Advisors Drew Dix explores the Warrior Ethos and US military readiness to fight and win the next war: (and...
The Menace of Malicious Compliance in Our Military
By Beege Welborn | HotAir The poster boys for the modern woke military might be long gone, but the damage they did and the...
The Order Was To Purge DEI, Not History
By Major Chase Spears, PhD, US Army, ret Served as an Army PAO Several times recently I started to write a warning to the...
The Great Revealing: Americans are waking up to how they’ve been deceived
By Greg Salsbury, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors In a recent piece, I analogized the Democrats’ propaganda machine and the...
West Point Grad, a DEI Specialist and Army intel officer . . . well, no words
What a mess how much things have gotten off the rails. How many West Pointers in the Long Gray Line are spinning in their...
Navy Seal watched as military became inundated with DEI
Excerpt from podcast with Congressman Eli Lake, a Navy Seal veteran: “When I look at this whole situation as a former...
Pentagon Review of Close Combat Training Standards is Long Overdue
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) applauds Secretary of...
BAD NEWS: Court orders USAF to rescind its pronouns/trans prohibitions
Going backwards: Department of the Air Force releases update memorandum on implementation of additional guidance for...
Defense Secretary Directs Services to Match Combat Arms Standards to Mission Requirements
By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News The secretary of defense on Sunday directed military departments to build plans that define and...
Service Academy Hearing a Missed Opportunity
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force Senior Executive Service, retired On March 26th, the Senate Armed...
STARRS Leaders to Give “American Creed” Presentations in California
STARRS President Ron Scott and Executive Vice President/General Counsel Mike Rose will be giving three public presentations...
Exterminating the DEI Virus
By Bill Scott STARRS Board of Advisors Dedicated, well-targeted campaigns created by STARRS, MacArthur Society of West...
A Capitol Hill Dud
By Colleen Roberts STARRS co-CT State Leader Anyone anticipating verbal ‘fireworks’ during the March 26, 2025 SASC “Status...
How To Deal With “Signalgate”—a Guide to the Perplexed
By Lani Kass, PhD STARRS Board of Advisors Last week, The Atlantic published an explosive report claiming that its editor-in...
Hegseth Is Right To Hold Military Men And Women To The Same Fitness Standards
By Lt. Col. Samantha Nerove, USA ret Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has announced a new policy of one standard in combat...
The ‘Good News’ According to Chuck Schumer
By Lt Col Eric Vogel, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS CT State Leader “The good news here is we did put 235 judges...
‘Forge Warriors, Rebuild Strength, Restore Deterrence,’ Hegseth Tells Midshipmen During Naval Academy Visit
By Army Maj. Wes Shinego | DOD News The Brigade of Midshipmen greeted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth with thunderous...
Naval Academy Removes Hundreds Of Books That Push DEI
By Jaryn Crouson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The U.S. Naval Academy on Monday began removing nearly 400 books that...
Army Reserve ‘Taking Appropriate Action’ Against Captain Who Accused Trump Admin Of Erasing Trans People
By Eireann Van Natta | The Daily Caller News Foundation The U.S. Army Reserve is taking “appropriate action” against a...
Hegseth Bids Adieu to Military Wokeness
By Rebecca Buis and Wilson Beaver | The Daily Signal For the past four years, the very foundations of America have been...
Britain Has Fallen: Russian Army Ad Makes Woke UK Army Ad Look Like a Joke
Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” shares a clip of a woke British Army ad that has gone viral over it’s...
LtGen Dan Caine Hearing to be Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing on April 1, 2025 to consider the nomination of Lt. General Dan Caine to...