By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...
Category - Air Force Academy
USAFA Cadet at Genderbread Person Training: “Why aren’t we learning about China instead?”
STARRS heard there was a mandatory lecture at the US Air Force Academy that all cadets had to attend, given by two PHD...
Latest wave of wokeness to hit West Point reveals one simple solution
Cut to the chase re Doug MacKinnon’s unusual solution: instead of just complaining about wokeness in the service...
Many top colleges, including service academies, ‘training a cadre of political commissars’ through DEI certificate programs
Many American colleges and universities are offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) certificates that are not only a...
Miss America Tours Alma Mater USAFA with 27 Other State Delegates
The Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall delivered a blunt warning about China’s 20-year effort to build a military that...
The indoctrination taking place within the DoD and the Air Force Academy
Another in a series of letters to the USAFA superintendent by Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAFA ’73 and STARRS President:...
A Man In Uniform
The below blog post, brought to our attention by a recently retired USAF Brigadier General, brings up an important point...
Members of Congress Press Air Force Academy on Trans Colonel’s Partisan Speech at Recent Conference
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN), Navy veteran and chairman of the House Armed Services Military...
Air Force Academy Highlights Transgender Officer At Leadership Summit
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire The United States Air Force Academy showcased a transgender-identifying activist and...
STARRS VIDEO: Out of Many, ONE
We’re DONE with all of the affinity/culture club groups at the service academies which separate, divide and have an...
Military Service Academy Affinity/Culture Clubs
No, not THAT Culture Club, but close. (Only people from the 1980s will get this) A look at identity-based clubs at the...
NCLS speaker tells cadets they need to be prepared to do what’s “uncomfortable and inconvenient” in the name of justice
Rather awkward press release from USAFA in light of what an anarchist Airman did this week in DC “in the name of...
Thoughts on NCLS for Superintendent
Letter from Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO To the USAFA Superintendent Dear General...
Toxic Bosses Like United Airlines’ Vaccine-Pushing CEO Must Be Held Accountable
More on ’89 USAFA grad with a sterling woke pedigree: By Stella Morabito | The Federalist Every American should be...
USAFA Cadets Unveil Class of 2024 Painting
A beautiful painting of Air Force fighter jets flying over the Air Force Academy was recently unveiled for the Class of 2024...
Run down on woke speakers at USAFA’s 2024 NCLS
23 FEB 24 Update: Cadets have advised that this year’s NCLS and the speakers “did not resonate with any of...
Open Letter on the Air Force Academy’s Cultural Change
A letter to the Superintendent of the Air Force Academy by 1973 graduate Col. Ron Scott, PhD (ret). His class was...
Expand Fair Admissions to the Military Academies
By J.A. Cauthen, retired Naval officer, USNA ’02 In June 2023, Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) prevailed in...
The Hostile Takeover of the Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors The transformation of the Air Force Academy (AFA) from a...
United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby instigated bullying of unvaxxed employees, lawsuit alleges
By Doug Mainwaring | LifeSite News A lawsuit brought against United Airlines (UAL) by employees — who say the airline...
Scott Kirby is NOT the kind of leader who should be inspiring future officers
Ken Delfino, US Navy, ret Regarding USAFA NCLS speaker Scott Kirby: I am a second generation United Air Lines (UAL) retiree...
Is a Drag Queen CEO the Right Choice to Be Speaking at This Air Force Academy Symposium?
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAFA ’91, USAF veteran There was a collective gasp among some U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) grads...
Tone Deaf: USAFA Names as NCLS Speaker Woke United CEO who blew up Twitter
After the door blew out on a passenger jet, a video was posted on Twitter of United Air Lines President Scott Kirby (USAFA...
Explicit Graphic Book in USAFA DEI Reading Room
The popular X account “Libs of TikTok” recently posted disgusting book that was in the Tulsa school system...
Therapy Dogs Bring Smiles at USAFA; Reduce Cadet Stress
(Air Force Academy Press Release) Cadet 3rd Class Nicolina Brown said she loves Go Team Therapy Crisis and Airport Dogs so...
DEI Poisons The Air Force Academy
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors I came to the Air Force Academy (AFA) in 1968 from Wyoming...
STARRS finally receives response from USAFA re a 2021 FOIA but 38 out of 48 pages are redacted
USAFA has something to hide? What are they, the CIA? On January 16, 2024, USAFA responded to STARRS FOIA 2021-03598-F, filed...
Major donor calling on Cornell president to resign over DEI sees outpouring of support
USAFA, and probably the other service academies, get their DEI training and certifications from far-left Cornell University...
Can Miss America Restore America’s Faith in Merit?
By Jane Guenther Parent | Chronicles Magazine Sunday night, while America was watching football, news about this week’s Iowa...
US Military Academies Focus on Oaths and Loyalty to Constitution as Political Divisions Intensify
For 75 minutes, Maj. Joe Amoroso quizzed his students in SS202, American Politics, about civilian leadership of the...
The Dangers of DEI Indoctrination Happening at the US Service Academies
By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors Considering Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation, and her...
Veteran Air Force commander joins race for Congress, says moment ‘too important’ for career politicians
A veteran Air Force navigator and top-level commander announced Tuesday he was launching a campaign for Congress because the...
American history classes were removed as core requirements in 1986 at USAFA
. . . . Brig. Gen. Wells, a 1975 academy graduate who led the history department from 2000 to 2016, points out that early in...
Air Force Academy Privately Fretted The End Of Race-Based Admissions Would Hamstring ‘Diversity’ Goals
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation The Air Force Academy’s top official worried the Supreme Court’s...
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...
Air Force Academy moves to monitor social media for potential cadet misconduct
The U.S. Air Force Academy aims to hire a contractor that can closely monitor popular social media platforms for posts and...
Senators introduce bill to ban racial discrimination in college admissions
The service academies are put on alert: (Press Release) Senator JD Vance (R-OH) and Congressman Jim Banks (R-IN-03) have...
Do the right thing with regards to the Marxist-based DEI: Bury it.
Email from Lt. Gen Rod Bishop to the USAFA Superintendent: Rich–as a die hard Falcon football fan, I certainly share...
USAFA NCLS 2024: “Valuing Human Conditions, Cultures, and Societies” — Except when bombing them
The Air Force Academy recently released a perky promo video for the 2024 National Character and Leadership Symposium which...
New Documentary Tells Story of Space Force Commander Who Spoke Out on CRT, Wokeness in Military
Production began last week on a documentary about former Space Force Lt. Col. Matthew Lohmeier, who faced retaliation for...
Pentagon Issues Policy Allowing Cadets, Midshipmen Who Have Kids to Stay at Service Academies
This just seems really odd. A child needs their mother and father. Can’t people wait until after they graduate and...
Victor Davis Hanson discusses DEI at Military Academies
On the Victor Davis Hanson Show, he and the cohost discuss the article, Diversity, Equity, And Inclusion Reign Supreme At...
Has DEI Become More Important Than Academics At The Air Force Academy?
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 Major General Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret In 2013 the United States Air Force Academy...
Military Service Academies Over the Years
Videos looking back at the US military service academies over the years. What are your memories? The Making Of A West...
USAFA Professors — Then and Now
Looking back at a time when a military academy, whose purpose was to prepare cadets to be future leaders in the military...
Culture Change at USAFA: Why Six Professors Resigned
Following a STARRS Town Hall meeting, a former USAFA Permanent Professor and Department Chair reached out to STARRS with...
DEI, Cornell and USAFA
USAFA’s Chief of the DEI office along with other staff have Diversity and Inclusion Certificates from Cornell...
Captain Rose versus The System
Part of the mission of STARRS is to educate/call-out unlawful/harmful policies/practices in the military, like the illegal...
Culture Reset at the Air Force Academy
The Air Force Academy recently release an article entitled, “Cadets urge survivors to ‘take back the...
The Supreme Court won’t allow racial preferences at service academies, either
By Michael Ormsbee, professor of constitutional law topics and space law at the U.S. Air Force Academy The Supreme Court...