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Category - Academies
LETTER: Message sent to USAFA Cadets
Air Force Academy’s Staff Cuts Unclear Amid Mass Resignations; Cadets Assured of World-Class Education
By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs News Gazette While the Air Force Academy sent a letter to incoming cadets early last week...
Transgender West Point Instructor Sues the Commander-in-Chief
This Times-Union article tells the story of a female who joined the Army and was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021...
DEI at Annapolis
By CDR Salamander, Substack In what was the last moment of reprieve for the agents of division inside the Annapolis...
Cheating Without Consequences: The Rise and Tolerance of Mass Cheating at America’s Military Academies
By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In March 2025, the U.S. Air Force Academy announced that nearly 100 cadets were under...
LETTER: USAFA Mission Statement
Letter to the Editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette: This letter is in response to an April 17 article, “Air Force Academy...
The Fight Against Race-Based Admissions at the US Naval Academy
This is a monumental, in-depth investigation into race-based admissions at America’s elite military academies—and the...
Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms
By Lexi Lonas Cochran | The Hill Military academies could increasingly show what President Trump wants to see from public...
Attorney blasts Merchant Marine midshipmen as ‘Christian nationalist insects’ for cheering Jesus painting
By Jon Brown | Christian Post An attorney from the nonprofit that pushed to relocate a historic Jesus painting at the U.S...
Secretary Sean Duffy Gives Energizing Speech at Merchant Marine Academy
Duffy received a standing ovation when he asserted, “Can we bring Jesus out of the basement?” By Daniel Bissell ...
USAFA and USMA end race consideration in admissions
By Nate Raymond | Reuters The U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor...
Newt’s World: Rep. Wesley Hunt on Service to Country
Newt Gingrich talks with Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04, U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter pilot, about his...
Response to USAFA Professor
This is a response the STARRS Chairman gave to a long post on Facebook written by an assistant professor of English at USAFA...
Tuberville’s proposal for academy athletes to go pro undermines duty
By Lt. Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret. Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently said he would pursue new rules in this year’s National...
Naval Academy Superintendent’s Congressional Testimony Contradicts Facts About Race-Based Admissions
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News On March 26, the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel required...
LETTERS: AFA cutting civilian staff; a very specific mission
STARRS President Ron Scott wrote a letter to the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette in response to an article: AFA...
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...
Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member retired...
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...
After Action Report on Academy Superintendents Hearing
Prepared by members of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates Here is a summary of the issues raised by Senators and...
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...
VMI at War: Defiant Leadership vs. National Authority
The piece below summarizes four important, informative, and highly researched “must-read” articles written by Virginia...
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...
Habits of Honor, Faith, and Patriotism – Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai
One of the new appointees to the USAFA Board of Visitors is retired Air Force Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai, a 1989...
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...
USAFA DEI Chief’s Title Changes
A USAFA grad alerted us to the fact that USAFA’s Chief, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer had changed his...
Naval Academy: A “House Divided”
A former Naval Academy professor writes about his concerns that SECDEF Hegseth might remove some civilian professors at...
Unity Letter to USAFA AOG
The five STARRS-recommended Unity slate of candidates to be on the Board of Directors of the US Air Force Association of...
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...
VMI Alumnus Nominated to Serve as Army Undersecretary
(VMI) Congratulations to VMI alumnus and retired Army colonel Michael Obadal ’96 who has been nominated to serve as Army...
Coast Guard Academy Removes References to ‘Climate Change’ from Its Curriculum
By Brian Hallenbeck | The Day, New London, Conn. A U.S. Department of Homeland Security order banning “climate change...
Air Force Academy Reverses Decision, Allows Muslim Cadets to Forgo Physical Training During Ramadan
The Air Force Academy recently held a new more rigorous “cumulative exercise” which is “an essential...
USAFA Cadets test warfighter readiness in spring CULEX
(USAFA) U.S. Air Force Academy cadets took on the rigorous Spring 2025 Culminating Exercise (CULEX), an essential training...
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...
West Point Must Come Clean
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 On Spring Break in 2022, five West Point cadets overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl...
From Flying F-4s to Fighting DEI: A Veteran’s Journey to Restore Military Values
STARRS & Stripes podcast host Al Palmer and guest Ron Olds, two veteran F-4 Phantom pilots during the Vietnam War...
Unity Slate wins seats on USAFA AOG Board of Directors
STARRS recommended five Unity Slate candidates to run for the Board of Directors of the Air Force Academy’s...