By Victoria Manning | Restoration News On March 26, the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel required...
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Naval Academy Superintendent’s Congressional Testimony Contradicts Facts About Race-Based Admissions
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...
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...
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...
A Capitol Hill Dud
By Colleen Roberts STARRS co-CT State Leader Anyone anticipating verbal ‘fireworks’ during the March 26, 2025 SASC “Status...
‘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...
US Naval Academy ends affirmative action in admissions: ‘Implementing all directives’
By Alexandra Koch | Fox News A U.S. Court of Appeals ruled the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) can no longer consider race...
Senators question Air Force Academy superintendent, others about civilian faculty
By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs Gazette After the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for more service members to...
US Naval Academy ends race consideration in admissions
By Nate Raymond | Reuters In a policy reversal in line with President Donald Trump’s views, the U.S. Naval Academy...
Senator: “The Academies must always remember why they were created in the first place.”
(Press Release) Yesterday, as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville...
Capt. Brent Sadler named Commandant of the U.S. Merchant Marine
By John Konrad | gCaptain In a significant and long-awaited move that could reshape the trajectory of American maritime...
End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies
By David Kane | Minding the Campus Secretary Peter Hegseth’s first order to the Department of Defense promised “a focus on...
Senate Hearing on Status of Military Service Academies – March 26, 2025
The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing, “To conduct oversight and receive testimony on the status of the...
Naval Academy will not remove DEI-related materials from library
This doesn’t make sense By James Matheson | Baltimore Sun The U.S. Naval Academy will not be forced to remove...
Sean Spicer: From the White House to the Naval Academy BoV
On Newt Gingrich’s podcast, Newt talks with Sean Spicer, former White House Press Secretary, about his recent...
Naval Academy: A “House Divided”
A former Naval Academy professor writes about his concerns that SECDEF Hegseth might remove some civilian professors at...
President Trump Appoints New Members to Three Service Academy Board of Visitors
After removing members of USAFA, USMA and USNA Board of Visitors appointed by Biden, President Trump named their...
A Premature Death Sentence for DEI at the U.S. Naval Academy?
By CDR Phillip J. Keuhlen, USN ret, USNA ’71 During a tour of duty at the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) as a Company Officer in...
President names allies to Naval Academy Board of Visitors
By Ali Bianco | Politico President Donald Trump is nominating his close allies to serve on the board of visitors for the U.S...
SECDEF Hegseth: “The warfighters are back in charge.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was recently interview by Laura Ingraham during their visit to GITMO and as part of that...
To Achieve Unity, DEI Must End
Letter to the Editor by Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 to the Baltimore Sun regarding the article: “Military academies review...
Woke Ideology Has Captured Military Academies—It Must Be Eradicated to Strengthen National Security
By John Gentry, retired US Army Reserve officer and CIA analyst President Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion”...
USNA Courses “Gender Matters: the Sociology of Gender” and “Gender and Sexuality Studies” CANCELED
Good and finally! Who needs stupid courses like this in a military warfighting academy? By Konstantin Toropin | Military.com...
Following Trump EOs, Naval Academy Prohibits Class Materials
By Ryan Quinn | Inside Higher Ed The U.S. Naval Academy’s provost told faculty last week not to use course readings “or...
We all know who is in the diversity commissariat
By CDR Salamander Let’s speak candidly: our Navy needs friends. We don’t need to generate enemies nor have those in the...
Identity/Affinity Clubs at Military Academies Divide People
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72, Attorney If you are not aware of this recent social media post by the USMA Deputy...
Naval Academy Launches Review Of School Clubs To Ensure Compliance With Trump’s DEI Prohibition
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist The U.S. Naval Academy is reviewing school-sponsored clubs and activities to ensure...
STARRS Attorney Mike Rose on the firing of Service Academy Board of Visitors
Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, STARRS General Counsel and Executive Vice President, was on the show Output to talk about the...
The President Dismisses Board of Visitors for Service Academies
This morning, President Trump posted on his social media his plans for the Board of Visitors of the service academies while...
SECDEF reminds Academy Supes: “These are MILITARY ACADEMIES, not civilian universities.”
Secretary of Defense Hegseth recently posted on his social media that he had met with the three superintendents of the...
Naval Academy closing DEI offices to align with Trump executive orders: memo
By Greg Norman | Fox News The head of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, says the school is “taking steps...
Calvert Task Group Presents the Audiobook Edition of Popular Title, ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’
(Press Release) Now available at Audible.com, “Don’t Give Up the Ship!” encourages the change the American...
Defense Department runs kindergartens?
By David Goodwin With less than a week on the job, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has just been directed by President...
Coast Guard Academy rolls back DEI as cuts at Naval Academy may soon follow
By CJ Womack | Campus Reform The U.S. Coast Guard Academy has disbanded its Office of Culture and Climate (OCC), while the...
The Military and the End of DEI
By R. Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 One of President Trump’s first Executive Orders, signed on January 20, 2025,[1] explicitly...
Equal Protection, Racial Preferences, and Professional Military Judgment: What the Judge in SFFA v. USNA Got Wrong
By Col. William A. Woodruff, US Army lawyer, retired Racially Discriminatory Admissions Prohibited When the Supreme Court...
The Naval Academy Should Jettison Race-Conscious Admissions Policies
By R. Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 As we await the anticipated rollout of formal orders from the new Commander-in-Chief to end...
US military academies should not use race in admissions, Trump’s Pentagon pick says
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali | Reuters President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, has told...
DEI efforts are wrecking America’s military
By Michael Poliakoff and Karrin Taylor Robson | AZ Central In 1962, President John F. Kennedy admonished: “There is little...
Anchors Astray: Why the Service Academy Exception is Wrong
By Matthew Ormsbee, an active-duty military officer and assistant professor of law at the U.S. Air Force Academy writing in...
US Navy Admiral James R. Hogg, 1934-2025
STARRS was sadden to learn that one of our supporters, four-star Admiral James R. Hogg, USNA ’56 passed away on 2...
When a Judge Incorrectly Rules Race as Legit in Naval Academy Admissions (Part 3 of 3)
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy JAG Corps, ret Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in...
Judge upholds U.S. Naval Academy’s race-conscious admissions program
USNA can continue being racists By Melissa Quinn | CBS News A federal district court on Friday upheld the U.S. Naval...
Don’t Give Up The Ship … Coronadan Contributes Essay To New Book
By Linda L. Austin | Coronado Eagle & Journal The Calvert Task Group website leads with a picture of the group’s book...
US Naval Academy on Trial for Unconstitutional Use of Race in Admissions (Part 2 of 3): The Witnesses
By Capt. Charles “Cully” Stimson, US Navy JAG Corps, ret Can the U.S. Naval Academy continue to use race and ethnicity in...
U.S. Service Academies Must End Race-Based Admissions
By Senator Todd Young, USNA ’95, former Captain in the USMC Ending racial preferences at America’s service academies...
Cognitive Diversity and Constitutional Values in Today’s Military: A Conversation with Navy Veterans from the Calvert Task Group
STARRS & Stripes host Commander Al Palmer, USN ret, leads a thought-provoking discussion that challenges current...