The MacArthur Society’s July 9, 2026 Commander’s Call featured U.S. Representative Keith Self (USMA ’75)...
Category - Academies
Commanders Call with Guest Speaker Congressman Keith Self, USMA 1975
How America’s Military Academies Lost Their Way
From Restore the Military podcast: West Point was built to produce warriors. So was Annapolis. So was the Air Force Academy...
Alumni upset Naval Academy didn’t celebrate 50th anniversary of female enrollment
Great line: “I never want to be known as a woman midshipman,” she said. “My identity is as a midshipman.” She spent her 20...
Clean Sweep at West Point
by pyrene i am pyrene. i am the head mouser cat in the united states military academy’s mess hall. previous pyrenes wrote...
2009 USAFA Grad/Air Force Major arrested on Capitol steps during protest calling for Trump impeachment
The shame, disgrace and dishonor of a USAFA grad and active duty USAF Major in uniform publicly turning against the...
West Point cadets talk America250 on national TV
Listen to these West Point cadets talk about America and service on the 250th anniversary of our country: Duty, Honor...
Gen. Frank McKenzie, ’79, returns to The Citadel as the 21st president
(Press Release) Gen. Frank McKenzie, USMC (Ret.), ’79, officially took over as the president of The Citadel on July 1, 2026...
Meeting of the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors – July 20, 2026
The USAFA Board of Visitors will hold a virtual public meeting on Monday, July 20, 2026 from 11 am to 1:15 pm Mountain Time...
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors – July 20, 2026
(Federal Register) The USNA Board of Visitors will hold a public meeting on Monday, July 20, 2026 from 9 am to 11 am ET at...
1999 West Point Grad Becomes New Commandant of Cadets
(WP Press Release) Brig. Gen. Joseph Katz assumed command as the 82nd Commandant of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy...
USAFA Updates Core Values Ramp
(USAFA Press Release) As a primary commissioning source for two military branches, the U.S. Air Force Academy is updating...
Congress Warned the Pentagon About VMI
By Mike Staso, VMI ’79 and Aric Southworth, VMI ’94 A New Lawsuit Alleges Its Board Was Already Governing in...
Citizen Sues Virginia Military Institute and Its Board, Alleging Secret “Group Text” Meetings, Withheld and Altered Public Records
By Bob Morris, VMI grad A new lawsuit accuses the governing board of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) — one of the...
Underlying strength of Secretary Hegseth’s USMA speech is its dismissal of Cultural Marxism
By Major Donald E. Vandergriff, USA ret | From his Substack I watched Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s May 23, 2026...
Judge blocks West Point from enforcing faculty speech restrictions
By Zach Schonfeld | The Hill A federal judge on Tuesday blocked restrictions imposed by the Trump administration that...
Chairman Pfluger Welcomes Newest Members to the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
(Press Release) Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) – a U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) graduate, retired Air Force Colonel...
Pete Hegseth’s anti-DEI speech at West Point is a template to save American lives
By Douglas MacKinnon | Fox News Op-Ed If you have not read, watched, or listened to Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s recent...
God, Duty and the Return of Moral Clarity at West Point
Lt. Col. Robert Maginnis, USA ret, USMA ’73 | Fox News Op-Ed On Saturday morning, I sat watching the rain fall over...
Pete Hegseth tears into DEI, ‘woke military’ in fiery West Point graduation speech
By Geoff Earle | New York Post Secretary of War Pete Hegseth tore into leaders who’ve tried to turn the military into “woke...
SERE, the USAF, and the Iran Rescue
By Kit Bobko USAFA ’91 USAF veteran The Schwarzenegger-movie heroics and flat-out audacity the Air Force and her sister...
SecWar Hegseth Commencement Speech at West Point
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gave the commencement speech at West Point and railed against the radical Marxist ideology...
SECNAV signs USNA son’s commission on graduation day
Great story from the Acting Secretary of Navy Hung Cao, USNA ’96, who said on X: “Thirty years after I...
Why Is My Alma Mater USAFA Allowing Professors Who Undermine The Commander-In-Chief?
By L. Todd Wood, USAFA ’86 Dr. Ryan Burke is a Professor of Military & Strategic Studies (MSS) at the U.S. Air...
VMI Grad: What hills do we press upon now?
By Bret R. Wilhite, VMI ‘07 What are we preserving – and what are we trading away? Not long ago, there was a time when the...
To the VMI Family: VMI’s Single Sanction Honor System – Not Ordinary
By Carmen Villani, VMI ’76 Corps of Cadets, Alumni, and VMI Community: As a 1976 graduate and having the privilege and...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’: The Class of 2026 and MacArthur’s enduring mandate
By Congressman Matt Van Epps, USMA 2005 As the Class of 2026 prepares to graduate from the United States Military Academy, I...
Rebuttal by Mike Rose to Legal Opinion by Skip Morgan
Ladies and Gentlemen, Attorney Skip Morgan posted on the USAFA AOG Basecamp site his memorandum below and in the attachment...
Mike Rose Statement to USAFA AOG: Amending AOG Bylaw
STATEMENT TO AFA AOG BOARD OF DIRECTORS RE AMENDING AOG BYLAW ART. I, SECT 3d MIKE ROSE, AFA ’69 24 Apr 26...
USAFA ’80 Female Grad Responds To ‘Affinity Group’ Incident In Letter To AOG
From Armed Forces Press: The email below was sent to AOG CEO Mark Hille by AFA ’80 graduate Tanya Regan for publication in...
They are burrowing in plain sight
From the Commander’s article, “…In 2009, Admiral Roughead as CNO started his road show visiting Sailors in...
About USAFA Admissions
STARRS recently received information from people regarding Admissions at the Air Force Academy. The first were parents...
Maj. General Paul Moga nominated to lead U.S. Air Force Academy
(US Air Force Academy) The President of the United States has nominated Maj. Gen. Paul D. Moga, Commander, Third Air Force...
92nd U.S. Naval Academy Commandant Announced
(US Naval Academy) Capt. Clinton A. Cornell was recently selected to become the 92nd Commandant of Midshipmen of the U.S...
Did the “anti-war” Brig General and former USAFA prof make the controversial banner?
STARRS received this new photo and comment as a follow-on to the previous photo L Todd Wood, USAFA ’86, wrote a story...
The Coming American: USAFA AOG BOD Membership Moment
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President & CEO This is a presentation I made on Friday at the...
Politicalizing incident against SecWar Hegseth at a USAFA women grads event on the USAFA campus
The SCIF host L. Todd Wood (USAFA ’86) interviews Major General (Ret.) Bentley Rayburn (USAFA ’75), Chairman of...
STARRS Calls For a Review Over Ideological Incident at U.S. Air Force Academy
STARRS is calling for a full and independent review of the incident COLORADO SPRINGS, April 28, 2026 – Stand Together...
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’ Recently...
The Inside Job at VMI
(The Cadet Foundation Press Release provided to STARRS) Virginia Democrats Move VMI attack to the Back Room What happens...
Virginia House Speaker Faces Questions Over Alleged VMI Board Pressure and Budget Threats
STARRS is concerned about political changes reflecting progressive (Marxist) ideology. Virginia’s most politically and...
Anti-masculinity in the military lecture at Vassar featuring former West Point prof
STARRS We catch up with a former left-wing West Point professor who had fretted, “I am reminded of the tragic...
Accreditation and West Point
Brig. Gen. Mitchell M. Zais, (ret.) Ph.D. Vice Chairman of the STARRS Board of Directors Remarks Delivered by Webinar to the...
Colonel Brandon Tellez ’01 to Succeed Brig. General Marks as Commandant, Reinforcing Warfighter Focus at the Academy
(USAFA Press Release) In preparation for a change of command ceremony next month, Col. Brandon J. Tellez, Class of ’01, has...
Dean of West Point leaving to become university president
Brigadier General Shane Reeves, the dean of the Academic Board at the U.S. Military Academy—who was named to that position...
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors – April 13, 2026
From the Federal Register: The DoD is publishing this notice to announce that the following Federal Advisory Committee...
Remove Sen. Van Hollen from the Naval Academy Board of Visitors
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) didn’t wait for facts. He went straight to CNN to...
West Point: Sword Making or Swordsmanship?
By then-Lt. Col. Mitchell M. Zais, USA, USMA ’69 March 1990 Armed Forces Journal International (Now retired Army Brig...
USNA BOV Member is Beneath Contempt
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 United States Senator Chris Van Hollen’s suggestion – without offering any proof —...
Gen. Frank McKenzie selected as 21st president of The Citadel
From STARRS Board of Advisors Chairman, Col. Bill Connor, USA ret, The Citadel ’90 and member of The Citadel Board of...