By Andrew Kerr | Washington Free Beacon A watchdog group sued the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday...
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USAF 2nd LT & USAFA Grad: “Policies of current administration align more with policies of a government our country fought against in the 1940s”
Recall previous article: USAF 2nd LT: “It’s thanks to the Air Force Academy that I currently have an anti-war stance.”...
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...
More Good News at USMA: Identity Clubs Disbanded
MacArthur Society The Deputy Commandant of Cadets, United States Corps of Cadets, issued a memorandum for record on February...
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...
Two U.S. service academies end minor in diversity and inclusion
By Tate Miller | The Center Square West Point Military Academy and the Air Force Academy have both ended their “Diversity...
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...
Air Force Academy drops ‘Diversity and Inclusion Studies’ minor
By CJ Womack | Campus Reform The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado has removed the “Diversity and Inclusion...
Remove DEI From VMI
By Carmen D. Villani, Jr. ’76 Members of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors, A little over 4 years ago...
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...
What Happened When DEI Came to the Military?
By Madeleine Rowley | Free Press Retired Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker, 59, spent almost two years as...
Good News Story: West Point DEI Conference Canceled
By Col. Bill Prince, USA ret, USMA ’70 President, MacArthur Society A good news story!! The West Point Association of...
Congressman Keith Self Introduces Maintaining Academy Culture and Assuring Retention of Tradition, Honor and Unity of the Republic Act (MACARTHUR Act)
(Press Release) Congressman Keith Self (USMA Class of 1975) introduced the House companion to legislation introduced in the...
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...
Good News: West Point’s DEI Minor Removed
West Point complains that we only post bad news, so here we’re posting some good news: West Point’s DEI minor...
West Point Annual DEI Conference Changes Its Name
What a difference (?) a year makes. West Point’s annual DEI conference held for the past 21 years just changed its...
DEI at USAFA re-designated to “Dignity Respect and Leadership”
By STARRS Chairman Lt Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 Dear Friends and especially Parents and Cadets, If you...
Coast Guard commandant terminated over border lapses, recruitment, DEI focus
By Landon Mion | Fox News The Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard has been terminated over concerns about the border...
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...
Young man turns down acceptance to West Point from Senator: “Coach, I’m not getting involved with that mess.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville discusses the woke problem in the military service academies with Pete Hegseth during...
Woke Warfare: A Documentary Exposing DEI’s Dangerous Grip On The U.S. Military
Secure America Now has released a new documentary on the threat of CRT/DEI ideology in the military. STARRS leaders Ron...
I Fell in Love with the Law: Interview with Attorney Mike Rose, USAFA ’69
STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mike Rose was interviewed by Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute...
VMI’s Integrity at Stake
By Sal Vitale, VMI ’61 For several years, I, along with other concerned alumni, diligently worked to restore the...
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...
Oldest Living West Point Grad Celebrates 106 Years
Congratulations Herb, USMA ’41! He, along with other members at Falcon’s Landing are supporters of STARRS and...
Army vet James Atticus Bowden on the state of West Point
Here’s another great interview conducted by Denny Gillem, USMA ’64 for his Frontline of Freedom radio program. In this...
West Point Grad Reveals What’s Wrong with the US Army
This video comes highly recommended from a number of people. It is an interview with retired US Army Colonel Casey...
Our Woke Military
By Mike McDaniel, USAF veteran Harris/Biden military officials have denied their addiction to DEI, CRT and wokeness in...
Gen (Ret) Lloyd Austin’s Troubling Legacy of DEI, Covid, Losing Wars and War Profiteering
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 GEN (Retired) Lloyd Austin will be replaced as SECDEF once the new administration’s pick...
Ponytails and braids ‘foster inclusivity’
A female admissions liaison officer at the U.S. Air Force Academy recently wrote an op-ed in the Air Force Times titled...
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...
Oops, He (LTG Gilland) Did It Again! Another West Point Scandal!
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Here we go again… Last week national news outlets reported that ProPublica tried to...
USAFA’s NCLS 2025: “Examining Warrior Ethos”
By Randy Roughton U.S. Air Force Academy Strategic Communications The upcoming National Character and Leadership...
West Point Graduates: We Endorse Pete Hegseth for Secretary of Defense
(Posted on American Military News) As graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, we are guided by the...
West Point Professor: “You don’t want certain groups too far overrepresented leading the ranks”
West Point professor Morten Ender was interviewed for this Military.com article, “The Air Force’s Faltering...
The Full Spectrum of 5th Gen War
On this episode of Survival Dispatch, special guests General Paul Vallely and Captain Matthew Newgent of the MacArthur...
Letter from an Army Ranger veteran/parent: West Point’s DEI Question; Women Rangers
Letter received by an Army veteran and parent. Some details removed to protect the author’s son. I am a 6-year U.S...
Air Force Academy sued over race-conscious admission practices
By Haylee May | Colorado Public Radio News The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is being sued over its...
Pete Hegseth says he hasn’t heard from West Point since employee ‘error’ denying his acceptance
Crickets. The small, sterile PR statement claiming it was a “administrative” mistake only AFTER Hegseth showed...
‘Incompetence’ ‘Bad Judgment’: Banks, Cotton Letters rip West Point
Letters from Congressman Jim Banks (Navy Veteran) and Senator Tom Cotton (Army veteran) to West Point’s...
The “Deep State” at West Point. Say it Ain’t So!
By Col. Bill Prince, USA ret, USMA ’70 MacArthur Society President Comments on West Point’s Involvement in Providing...
Emails, Phone Logs Reveal How Botched Pete Hegseth West Point Story Imploded
More evidenced on the planned hit job on Pete Hegseth by ProPublica and West Point’s complicity: By Reagan Reese | ...
ProPublica’s botched Pete Hegseth smear proves the need to purge the military of partisanship
By New York Post Editorial Board | New York Post A botched smear of Secretary of Defense-designate Pete Hegseth just...
Affirmative Action Opponents Sue US Air Force Academy
By Nate Raymond | Reuters The group that successfully persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to ban race-conscious admissions at...
Trump’s Top Priority: End Wokeness in the Military, including USMMA
By Daniel Bissell | Restoration News He can start by firing Superintendent Joanna Nunan at the U.S. Merchant Marine...
Merchant Marine Academy Superintendent Pushes DEI Agenda
All the service academies unfortunately have caught the woke mind virus. Here’s a post on X about the problems: The...
Potential cadet prep meeting with USMA and USAFA: “You’re going to have to act super woke in order to pass this”
The woke agenda starts off potential academy cadets lying from the very beginning. And then if they do get in, they still...
Comparing West Point Acceptance Letters
While on the topic of Pete Hegseth’s West Point acceptance letter from 1999, let’s see how it compares to the...
West Point Trying to Derail Their Next Boss, Pete Hegseth
STARRS Concerning stories about West Point don’t happen often, but when they do, they’re always a doozy and USMA really...