By Mike McDaniel, USAF veteran Harris/Biden military officials have denied their addiction to DEI, CRT and wokeness in...
Category - Academies
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...
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...
Congressman: Laser-focused on getting rid of DEI in the military
Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04: “I’m a military guy and getting DEI and getting the woke stuff out of...
Message from Brig. General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
For those who don’t know me, my name is Chris, callsign “Mookie”, Walker and I retired last year as a Brigadier General...
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...
Let’s Make the Air Force Academy Soar Once More
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAF veteran, USAFA ’91 Here are five things to make the venerable institution, which has struggled...
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...
DEI’s Impact on our Military with West Point Grad Meaghan Mobbs
By Patrice Onwuka | Philanthropy Roundtable America’s military has been known as the greatest in the world, but over the...
Purdy Statement to USNA Board of Visitors
To: The Honorable C. A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger (D-MD) Chairman U. S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors -and...
Naval Academy Professor fluent in DEI and male-shaming
By STARRS Brad Johnson is a Professor of Psychology in the Department of Leadership, Ethics and Law at the United States...
MacArthur Society on Dr. Steve Turley Show
MacArthur Society Board Member Matthew Newgent, USMA ’96, was on Dr. Steve Turley’s show discussing the work of...
New Minor at West Point: American Foundations
By STARRS Cadets have a new minor for American warfighters at West Point which is much better than the exceedingly...
USNA dodged the bullet by uninviting this unhinged speaker
If you recall from previous articles on this site (see below), author and historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat was scheduled to be the...
Air Force Academy official forms refer to Fathers and Mothers as “Non-Birthing Parents”
By STARRS Utah’s Senator Mike Lee posted on X that he had recently spoken with the father of a U.S. Air Force Academy...
Naval Academy Graduate Charged with Hate Crime After Pride Flag Ripped from Annapolis Shop
By Luke Parker | Catonsville Times A Naval Academy graduate was charged with a hate crime Saturday after a tattoo shop in...
Military Leadership Indoctrinated by DEI?
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch talks about the military, including Judicial Watch’s recent FOIAs of the service...
A Conversation with USAF Brigadier General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, talks with retired Air Force Brigadier General...
USAFA Grad Congressman Pfluger Demands DOD Re-Affirm First Amendment After USAFA-SJSU Shirt Controversy
By Dan Zaksheske | Outkick Last month, OutKick exclusively reported that an Air Force Academy graduate was denied entry...
Notice of the Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors – Dec 2, 2024
From the Federal Register. Attend or submit a statement. SUMMARY: The DoD is publishing this notice to announce that the...
West Point Grad Congressman: “We got our country back”; “Identity politics is dead.”
Texas Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04 and wearing a West Point jacket, recently had this to say on the Benny Johnson...
Trump selects Mike Waltz as National Security Adviser
By Phil Stewart, Steve Holland and Idrees Ali | Reuters President-elect Donald Trump has picked Republican Representative...
Securing America interviews STARRS Chairman LTG Rod Bishop
Securing American host Frank Gaffney interviews STARRS Chairman LTG Rod Bishop, USAF re, on the divisive DEI agenda...
Judicial Watch Sues for Records on Rebranding of West Point’s DEI Office
(Press Release) Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S...
Questions Raised About VMI Professor Supporting Radical Causes
This billboard truck showed up at the Virginia Military Institute today, parked in front of the alumni hall and in full view...
Supreme Court turns away Trump military board appointees’ fight against Biden firings
By Zach Schonfeld | The Hill The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal from several allies of former President Trump...
Reviewing ‘We All Wear Green, We All Bleed Red’
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Larry Purdy has written a lengthy article titled “We All Wear Green...
Two Disturbing Stories Regarding the Academies
These two similar stories were recently seen in comment sections on two different articles on different websites: “A...