(Press Release) U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) announced he secured guarantee from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to...
Category - Academies
On this day in history, March 16, 1802, United States Military Academy established at West Point
The United States Military Academy at West Point, which has trained generations of American leaders to serve from the...
Rep. Banks Pressures Merchant Marine Academy and West Point to Finally End Vaccine Mandates
(Press Release) On Saturday, three days after this oversight letter from Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Jim...
Merchant Marine Academy rescinds COVID vax mandate after Post report
The US Merchant Marine Academy canceled its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Friday – two days after The Post broke the story of...
Merchant Marine Academy still won’t take COVID vaccine exemptions
Months after the Pentagon lifted its COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the US Merchant Marine Academy has kept its requirement in...
New changes underway at VMI addressing DEI issue
(Spirit of VMI Press Release) The Spirit of VMI Political Action Committee (SOVP) was founded in February of 2021 in...
Racial Preferences At Our Service Academies Are Not Essential To National Security
By Gen. Arthur E. Brown Jr., U.S. Army, retired, former Army vice chief of staff, former deputy superintendent of the U.S...
Midshipmen warn left-wing politics are infiltrating Merchant Marine Academy: ‘Last frontier for woke ideology’
Multiple current and former midshipmen at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York, told Fox News Digital...
Virginia Military Institute Alumni Withhold Donations to Fight Diversity Agenda
Alumni of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) are leading an effort to redirect donations toward a foundation that...
Former Naval Academy student claims COVID booster gave him a blood clot
Former U.S. Naval Academy student Duke Paane speaks out after he allegedly got a blood clot from the COVID-19 booster...
VMI alumni work to disrupt alumni donations to force school to end DEI programs
‘The only way you can influence them is by hurting their pocketbook.’ The Virginia Military Institute continues to face...
West Point Said Applicants Needed The COVID Vaccine Weeks After Mandate Ended
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point affirmed a COVID-19 vaccination requirement for incoming cadets weeks after the...
Washington Post Article Backfires; Draws Attention to DEI at VMI
(Spirit of VMI Press Release) As anticipated by the SOVP Press Statement dated 17 February 2023, Washington Post Columnist...
Oldest US military college breaks out into chaos over diversity push
The oldest public senior military college in the US has found itself embroiled in a very modern form of cultural warfare...
Sen. Cruz sends letter to US Merchant Marine Academy demanding answers
(Press Release) U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and...
What Kind of Military Does Our Country Need?
By Anthony Lentini, West Point ’71 Recent incursions into American airspace by Chinese spy balloons, an increasingly...
Naval Academy Removes Confederate Name From Campus Building
The U.S. Navy has changed the name of a Naval Academy campus building that formerly held the name of a Confederate leader to...
Merchant Marine Academy Statement on Painting
(Press Release) UPDATED Statement on Painting Entitled “Christ on the Water” at the United States Merchant Marine Academy –...
Republicans Raise Concerns over a Historic Painting Covered at U.S. Marine Academy
Four House Republicans, all of whom attended U.S. military academies, authored a letter raising concerns over media reports...
STARRS Open Letter to Congressman Pat Ryan
Dear Congressman Ryan, Congratulations on your election to New York’s 18th Congressional District. Unfortunately, your...
Leftists Want a New Civil War
By Tony Lentini, West Point ’71 America’s Civil War, which raged from 1861 to 1865, was by far the bloodiest...
The Spirit of VMI Speaks: Deactivate DEI – A Call to Action
Often described broadly as a form of political correctness, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a Marxist doctrine at...
Air Force cadet died of blood clot in lung, autopsy finds
A coroner has determined that Air Force Academy Cadet 3rd Class Hunter Brown died of a blood clot in his lungs that was...
Air Force Academy Vigil
The U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Honor Guard performs a 21-Gun Salute in honor of classmate Cadet 3rd Class Hunter Brown...
‘Mean-Spirited’: West Point Denied Travel For Unvaccinated Cadet After Mandate Was Overturned
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has denied travel requests...
West Point reimposes travel ban on unvaxxed cadets, despite repeal of military vax mandate
The United States Military Academy is reimposing restrictions on unvaccinated cadets despite the lifting of the...
A Total Shock’: Parents Mourn Sudden Death of Their Air Force Academy Son
Candyce and Dustin Brown last spoke to their son Hunter by phone on Sunday, Jan. 8, discussing the class schedule for his...
The Usurpation Of Martin Luther King Day
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors At the age of thirty-five Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel...
US Merchant Marine Academy hides Jesus painting behind curtain after complaint from advocacy group
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in Kings Point, New York, has covered up a large painting of Jesus Christ in one of...
The Naming Commission Comes for West Point
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D., retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Created by the fiscal 2021 national...
The Pandora’s Box of mRNA Covid Vaccines
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors Recently, Hunter Brown, a United States Air Force Academy cadet and...
Air Force Academy Cadet Dies Suddenly While Walking to Class
A cadet at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, died after suffering a sudden medical emergency while he was...
After Coast Guard Academy ‘Excommunicated’ Cadets For Refusing Vaccine, Pleas For Reinstatement Go Unanswered
Seven Coast Guard cadets booted in September after commanders denied their vaccine exemption appeals were not reinstated...
Judicial Watch Sues Air Force Academy for Records about Critical Race Theory and ‘White Supremacy’
(Judicial Watch) Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for United States Air...
Interview with Dr. John Hughes
Dr. Ron Scott speaks with West Point graduate Dr. John Hughes on ethical leadership. Open Letter To 61st Superintendent Of...
Woke Warfighters: How Political Ideology is Weakening America’s Military
The United States military is the greatest fighting force in the world. Unfortunately, President Joe Biden, and his...
The U.S. Naval Academy is Adrift
By J.A. Cauthen, USNA ’02 Taught in the History Dept at the Academy America, it would seem to some, is irredeemably...
Air Force Academy’s ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ Training Angers Conservatives
Forbes contributor Eric Tegler wrote an outstanding article explaining D&I instruction, programs and culture at the US...
Virginia Military Institute Went Woke, Enrollment Fell 25%
The Virginia Military Institute is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the presence of women at the nation’s oldest...
Fight Against Medical Tyranny – USCGA Cadet Sophia Galdamez
American Conversations host Christine Dolan speaks with former US Coast Guard Academy cadet Sophia Galdamez, who was...
Ongoing “Ideological Purge” Criticized in Open Letter from Retired USCG 3-Star
Retired Vice Admiral William “Dean” Lee (USCG) has joined with STARRS in publicly challenging the ongoing unlawful...
Open Letter to My Fellow US Coast Guard Flag Officers
By William Dean Lee, VADM, USCG (Ret.) As many of you know, I have advocated publicly for seven cadets who were recently...
Seven USCGA Cadets Discharged!
Seven USCGA Cadets Were Officially Discharged 23 Sep, Over a Month After Their Religious Accommodation Requests and Appeals...
Judicial Watch Sues on Behalf of Concerned Military Group for Air Force Academy Critical Race Theory Records
Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of Stand Together Against...
Judicial Watch Supports STARRS in Suing DOD for Overdue USAFA Records
Judicial Watch took on a new quest, suing the Department of Defense (DOD) on behalf of Stand Together Against Racism and...
Coast Guard Academy Gives Seven Cadets 24 Hours to Get Off Base After Denying Vaccine Mandate Appeals
Despite several on-going court cases and recent court ordered injections prohibiting the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps...
Runaway Wokeness at the Air Force Academy
The Patriot Post’s writer and analyst, Douglas Andrews, writes a biting essay on the increasing trend of Wokeism and a...
Coast Guard and Air Force Academies’ Recent Actions Against the Unvaccinated
Vice Admiral William “Dean” Lee, USCG (Ret), and Dr Sandy Miarecki, Lt Col, USAF (Ret), were interviewed on the Ark...
Has the Air Force Academy Become Just Another Liberal Arts School?
By Scott Sturman STARRS Board of Advisors member The Cadet Honor Code; high attrition rates; intense competition in...
Air National Guard Board Finds Military’s Shaky COVID Vax Mandate Unlawful, As West Point Holds Out
In a unanimous decision similar to the Navy’s in the spring, an Air National Guard administrative separation board...