By Harold Hutchinson | The Daily Caller A former United States Space Force officer said Saturday morning that diversity...
Category - Air Force Academy
As seen at the USAFA BX
On Sunday, a STARRS leader went to the Base Exchange at the Air Force Academy and saw this banner outside...
The Military Academies and a Biden Power Grab
By Richard A. Epstein | Wall Street Journal A lame-duck President Trump appointed Heidi Stirrup to a three-year term on...
USAFA Class of 2024 by the Numbers
Typical obsessing about how many are or are not “minorities”. Who cares? In regards to Scott Sturman’s...
’95 USAFA Grad Becomes USAFA Vice Superintendent
(USAFA Press Release) The Secretary of the Air Force has named Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Sherman as the next U.S. Air Force...
Sparks Fly As Republicans & Dems Clash Over Affirmative Action Ban For U.S. Military Academy Admissions
At last week’s House Armed Services Committee hearing mark up for the NDAA, lawmakers debated an amendment barring...
Air Force Academy Graduates Call It Quits Before Their Careers Begin
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors During their final year at the Air Force Academy (AFA), cadets...
‘Gender neutral restrooms’ at U.S. military academies
By J. M. Phelps | WND It was just one more sign that Marxist “woke” ideology has infiltrated the U.S. military...
Lt Gen Rod Bishop: America faces an enemy that is clearly “inside our gates”
STARRS Chairman of the Board Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, recently gave a talk at a VFW in...
Rep. Banks Passes Amendment to End Racial Discrimination at Military Academies
(Press Release) Today, Chairman of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Jim Banks passed an amendment to...
USAFA Graduated Another Beauty Queen
First USAFA 2023 grad Miss America Madison Marsh and now her 2023 classmate, Jessica Ahner is Miss Baltimore, in line to...
Air Force special operations boss tapped to run USAFA
Air Force special operations boss Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind has been nominated to lead the U.S. Air Force Academy in...
Statement to DACODAI – Lt Col Marc Van Ells
Statement to DACODAI by Lt. Colonel Marc Van Ells, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 Dear Sir/Ma’am, In anticipation of your...
Statement to DACODAI – Col. Daniel Bohlin
Statement to DACODAI by Colonel Daniel J. Bohlin, USAF ret Comment for Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion...
USAFA Grad: Disillusioned with the Direction of the Academy
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Recent email sent to General Bishop:...
Our Service Academies Must Discard Race-Based Admissions
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it… [T]he Equal Protection Clause …...
Around the Naval Academy
The U.S. Naval Academy hosted all the Supes at the annual Conference of Service Academy Superintendents (COSAS) with tours...
Correcting The Air Force Academy’s Accountability And Transparency Problems
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 Who in the profession of arms possess the requisite courage to storm the beaches of...
USAFA Cadet: “I came here to be mentally and physically challenged, not be constantly told “I’m the victim”
Recent post on Service Academy Forum by a USAFA Cadet: “Disclaimer: This might not represent the views of the Cadet...
To combat bullying and extremism, Air Force Academy turns to social media sleuthing
By Will Carless | USA Today After years of internal and external alarms that the military isn’t doing enough to address...
Answers to Questions re Service Academy Admissions and a Change to the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...
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...
