The September 2025 issue of the USAFA Association & Foundation’s Checkpoints magazine featured an article on Matt...
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Matthew Lohmeier featured in USAFA Checkpoints Magazine
News5 Reporter Waits 1 Year for Air Force Academy FOIA
Ha! So STARRS is not the only ones turning old waaaiiittttiiinnnggg for responses to our over 60 FOIAs, the majority with...
Lt Gen Bishop nominates Charlie Kirk to be an honorary member of the USAFA AOG
Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, is on the Board of Directors of the US Air Force Academy Association of...
Future of America’s service academies
STARRS Board of Advisors member Brigadier General Christopher S. “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88, was interviewed...
Why Are There So Many Social Justice Warriors at America’s Military Service Academies?
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Past Democrat presidents used America’s service academies as social justice...
Service academies to accept conservative alternative to SAT and ACT
By Sophia Cai | Politico The nation’s service academies next month will announce they will accept scores from the Classic...
‘We’ll Never Surrender’: Erika Kirk Gives Emotional, Fiery Address Following Husband’s Assassination
“You have no idea the fire you have ignited in his wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle...
Statement from USAFA Board of Visitors Chairman on Charlie Kirk
(Press Release) Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11), Chairman of the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors, released the...
Newly Revealed Docs Show How Deep DEI Ran In Biden-Era Air Force
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force drilled diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) rhetoric...
Conduct of USAFA AOG BOD Meetings; “Who is Terry Schwalier?”
By Mike Rose, USAFA ’69 (pictured above) USAFA AOG Member I invite you to consider my comments below about certain...
USAFA AOG Board Incident: Retired USAF Colonel calls two Generals “racist Trumpists”, demands they resign
The Board of Directors of the Air Force Academy Association of Graduates (AOG) met in July 2025 during the Long Blue Weekend...
The Right Military Leader for the Air Force
Two USAF Generals tell the other side, that Gen. Wilsbach was following orders pushed down from Pentagon leaders and...
Rep. Nancy Mace Leads Charge To Restore Merit In Military Academy Admissions
(Press Release) Congresswoman Nancy Mace (SC-01) introduced the Restoring Merit in the Military Service Academies Act to...
Air Force Academy cancels lecture after discovering speaker disparaged Trump
Not too surprising that a leftist feminist poet would disparage the Commander in Chief of the military, but really the...
Under Secretary Lohmeier visits alma mater, observes US Air Force Academy updates
(USAFA) Under Secretary of the Air Force Matthew Lohmeier visited the U.S. Air Force Academy, August 19, 2025, the first...
Charlie Kirk Asks Tough Questions at U.S. Air Force Academy Oversight Meeting
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Restoration News continues its examination of the civilian boards that oversee...
U.S. Air Force Academy adapts to civilian workforce reduction, maintains academic excellence
(USAFA Strategic Communications) A new academic year is underway at the U.S. Air Force Academy, with cadets attending...
Removing DEI from military schools is a ‘move towards meritocracy’: Attorney
Constitutional attorney Mark Smith discusses the Department of Justice’s lawsuits alleging use of DEI at military schools on...
Additional Air Force guidance on implementing policy on prioritizing military excellence and readiness: General guidelines for involuntary separation
(US Air Force) The Department of the Air Force released additional guidance for implementation of Executive Order 14183...
Justice Department Settles Lawsuits Challenging Race-Based Admissions at West Point and Air Force Academy
(DOJ Press Release) The Justice Department announced the settlement of litigation challenging former race-based admissions...
USAFA Grad Congressman Pfluger Voted Chairman of U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
(Press Release) Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11), a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, former fighter pilot, and Colonel in...
DEI Admissions Gatekeeper Gives Briefing at USAFA BOV Meeting
In the section of the USAFA Board of Visitors meeting today on admissions (video below), it was a surprise to see Col...
USAFA BOV Vice Chairman: “The enduring truth is that unity, not diversity, is our strength.”
USAFA Board of Visitors Vice Chairman Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai, USAF ret, USAFA ’89 gave these closing...
“Make sure USAFA cadets can articulate and feel in their soul American Exceptionalism” –Charlie Kirk
Air Force Academy Board of Visitors member Charlie Kirk’s end remarks at the meeting today: “The importance of...
“The discipline is to teach, not to punish”
Remarks today by USAFA Board of Visitors member Dan Clark, a motivational public speaker who is also on the STARRS Board of...
Video of August 7, 2025 USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting
Full video of the August 7, 2025 meeting of the US Air Force Academy’s Board of Visitors. Well USAFA pulled it: But we...
Status of the CRT/DEI Agenda at the Air Force Academy
USAFA Board of Visitors member Charlie Kirk, appointed by President Trump, asked the Air Force Academy Superintendent about...
The Air Force Academy Deserves Real Oversight. Will the Board of Visitors Follow Through?
By Doug Truax, USMA ’92 | Restoration News America’s military has been the plaything of the radical Left for far...
Two USAF Generals School Biased Reporter on Marxism in the Military
STARRS In its typical left-wing bias manner, a Military.com article by Rebecca Kheel about Matt Lohmeier entitled...
Habits of Honor, Faith, and Patriotism – Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai
Last week Col. Doug “Stoli” Nickolai (USAF ret) gave his “Habits of Honor, Faith and Patriotism”...
Supplemental Notice of Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy Meeting
From the Federal Register. The Air Force Academy now joins with the other military service academies in allowing the public...
Leftist Accrediting Organizations Influence U.S. Military Academies
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Agencies responsible for approving accreditation of America’s five military service...
Conscientious Objector USAFA ’23 Grad has to pay back $150K
Update on that 2023 USAFA cadet who became a conscientious objector after Israel’s bombing of Gaza. We covered her...
USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting – August 7, 2025
The next US Air Force Academy Board of Visitors meeting open to the public will be on Thursday, August 7 from 8:30 am to...
How to Monitor Military Academy Admissions
By David Kane | Minding the Campus From the Military Times: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has barred the U.S. military...
Civilian Service Academy Profs Complain about “Academic Freedoms” in Military Academies
Professors used to having academic freedoms from their colleges and universities—nearly all of which have a left-wing bias...
Congressman Protects Women’s Sports at U.S. Military Service Academies
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the Protection of Women in Sports at Military...
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Soils His Uniform to Defend Trans Ideology in the Military
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Martin France is a prime example of dangerous political activists infecting the...
Senator Introduces Legislation to Protect Women’s Sports at Military Service Academies
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced legislation to prohibit men from participating in women’s...
Hegseth Was Right to Ban Race in Admissions At Military Service Academies, but Not for the Reasons You Might Think
Not too sure about his point about recommendations from the 2011 Military Leadership Diversity Commission not being...
This bill will help make military officers worthy of our republic
By Tim Feist, USMC vet, taught at USNA Earlier this month, Sen. Jim Banks introduced legislation to require the U.S service...
New bill in House would codify Trump’s order banning woke curriculum from U.S service academies
By Kerry Picket | The Washington Times A House GOP lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday that would codify President...
One-Sided Reporting on Transgender USAFA Cadets Article
Opposite to the previous post, USAFA 1960s Recruiting Film: “What Makes a Man”, if things hadn’t changed, it could...
USAFA 1960s Recruiting Film: “What Makes a Man”
The United States Air Force presents “What Makes a Man: The Story of the United States Air Force Academy,” a mid-1960s...
DEI in military academies is ‘corrosive’ to national defense
By Christina Schuler | Florida Today Will Thibeau, director at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of...
Update: 10th Medical Group at USAFA Command Board
Update to this story, the photos of the Commander-in-Chief and Secretary of Defense have been posted. STARRS President Ron...
Senator Introduces Legislation to Expand Classical Learning Test to Service Academies
(Press Release) Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced the Promote Classical Learning Act. The bill requires U.S. military...
Certification of Merit-Based Military Service Academy Admissions
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor, Sean Parnell, on Certification of Merit-Based Military Service...
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...