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Warfighters, Not Bureaucrats: Reforming Military Education
SecWar Hegseth Visit to USAFA; Gives Speech to Cadets
(Pentagon News) Secretary of War Pete Hegseth traveled to the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs, Colorado, on...
USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting – October 16, 2026
Requests to attend in-person and/or written statements due before October 11, 2026. You can watch the meeting online on...
Civilian Tenure Is Out at America’s Military Service Academies—Why It Matters
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News For years, Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) has argued that service...
DoW MEMO: America’s Corps of Cadets
From SecWar’s speech: ” . . . Our fifth announcement, like the sixth that will follow, is about people. In an...
New President of The Citadel Gen. McKenzie: “I will be relentless — relentless — in the pursuit of excellence.”
Gen. Frank McKenzie inaugurated as The Citadel’s 21st president (The Citadel) When Gen. Frank McKenzie, USMC (Ret.), ’79...
The United States Air Force Academy Is Training Warriors Again
By L. Todd Wood, USAFA ’86 A decade ago, after my 30th reunion, I wrote an article that went viral; it was titled —...
Save the World War II Palawan site
STARRS supports this effort and encourages you to sign the petition: The MacArthur Society has endorsed the efforts of the...
Chairman Pfluger and Senator Hickenlooper Lead Charge for Service Academy Investment in Final NDAA
(Press Release) Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11), Chairman of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) Board of...
To All U.S. Air Force Academy Graduates
By L. Todd Wood, USAF vet, USAFA 1986 I’m running for the AOG Board of Directors and need your support! I’m a...
Air Force Awarded Nearly $750,000 For AI-Powered DEI Training Tool Under Biden
Besides the wokeness, it looks like USAFA was/is using AI companions instead of humans to train/instill character in cadets:...
West Point sued for allegedly firing professor over climate change stance
More background on woke profs at West Point and how the academy is getting rid of wokeness. By Roger Hannigan Gilson | Times...
Military Education Needs a Strategic Makeover
Key quote: “What has been visible in recent times is the intellectual sludge left by 20 plus years of forced social...
Air Force Major Charged With 10 Counts After Calling For Trump’s Impeachment, Conviction
By Derek VanBuskirk | The Daily Caller News Foundation A U.S. Air Force major has been arrested for a second time after...
USAFA Superintendent Change of Command Full Ceremony
Video of the ceremony. STARRS Chairman Emeritus Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 was there in the bleachers...
Leftwing USAFA Grad Gets Arrested Again
Update on the completely dishonorable Air Force Major Jason Watson—a 2009 US Air Force Academy graduate in the USAF for 17...
West Point Welcomes 62nd Superintendent
(USMA Press Release) Maj. Gen. James B. Bartholomees III was promoted to lieutenant general and officially took command of...
USAFA Welcomes Lt. Gen. Paul D. Moga as 23rd Superintendent
(USAFA Press Release) Lt. Gen. Paul Moga, USAFA ’95, became the 23rd Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy...
Brig. Gen. Christopher Walker on his DEI experience in the military
STARRS Board of Advisors member BGen Christopher “Mookie” Walker, USAF ret, USAFA ’88 (and on the Board of...
West Point Professor Challenges Ban on “Un-American, Divisive… Radical, Extremist, and Irrational Theories.”
By Jonathan Turley There is an important lawsuit being litigated in the Southern District of New York over the limits of...
Pentagon weighs eliminating civilian tenure at military academies and reviewing all curriculum, draft memo says
By James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson | CBS News The Department of War is considering its most sweeping remake of military higher...
USAFA Realigns Academic Enterprise to Forge “Day One” Warfighters
(USAFA) The U.S. Air Force Academy is evolving its academic structure to maintain its academic programs’ relentless focus on...
Marxism Is Deeply Embedded at America’s Military Service Academies
By Col Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors From his podcast, The Rob Maness Show: You just heard Secretary of War...
Academy Helicopter Parents
When you first went off to your service academy or the military, did your parents act like you were going off to...
Air Force and Space Force Core Values now up on ramp at USAFA
No word about the front of the ramp, where “Bring Me Men” used to be. (Click on photos to enlarge) Lotta words...
Senate approves incoming Air Force Academy superintendent
By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs News Gazette Maj. Gen. Paul Moga, USAFA ’95, is set to become the superintendent of...
Pom Poms and No-Shows: The Failure of Military Academy Oversight
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Some Boards of Visitors are finally doing their jobs. Others are AWOL. America’s...
Army Maj. Gen. James Bartholomees, USMA ’95, nominated to be next Superintendent of West Point
In the “Secretary of War General Officer Announcements” post on July 16, 2026, it included this: Army Maj. Gen...
Creating an Environment for Mistreatment – Larry Card
Statement made by Larry Card, USAFA ’93, to the July 20, 2026 USAFA Board of Visitors meeting: Transcript: “Good...
Improvements to the USAFA conduct/ honor/ disenrollment systems – Mike Rose
Remarks and recommendations submitted by Mike Rose, USAFA ’69 (STARRS Executive Vice President & General Counsel) to the...
Discipline: Balancing Commander Discretion within Institutional Standards and Norms – Ron Scott
Remarks and paper submitted by Col Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 (STARRS President & CEO) to the July 20, 2026...
USAFA Statutory Realignment – MajGen Bentley Rayburn
Remarks and position paper submitted by Maj. General Bentley Rayburn, USAF ret, USAFA ’75 (STARRS Chairman of the...
USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting – July 20, 2026, Video, Notes, Transcript
The USAFA Board of Visitors met on July 20, 2026, to review academy updates including new leadership introductions, AI...
‘Woke’ military academies targeted in new blueprint for sweeping warfighting overhaul
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News A conservative organization is calling for a sweeping overhaul of America’s service...
Killing Woke At West Point
By LTC Edwin L. Kennedy, Jr, USA ret, USMA ’76 STARRS Ambassador “West Point is set apart. It’s special. It’s above...
Commanders Call with Guest Speaker Congressman Keith Self, USMA 1975
The MacArthur Society’s July 9, 2026 Commander’s Call featured U.S. Representative Keith Self (USMA ’75)...
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...