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Category - Academies
Is DEI at West Point Cultural Marxism?
The American Security Council Foundation’s Peace Through Strength podcast host Joy Votrobek and cohost Laurence...
Is the Naval Academy Going Rogue?
Choosing candidates based on their skin color or gender over the most qualified? From the channel “Service Academy and...
West Point’s DEI Office Changes Name to “Office of Engagement and Retention”
The West Point Office of “Diversity, Inclusion and Equal Opportunity” is now called the “Office of...
MacArthur Society – Save West Point!
Matthew Newgent (USMA’96), board member of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates was interviewed by CDM Media...
West Point Grads Discuss Issues at the Military Academy
Jeanne Ives ’87, host of “The Real Story with Jeanne Ives” show interviews Matthew Newgent, ’96...
Lt General Rod Bishop: From USAFA to Leading Seven Commands
Meet STARRS Chairman of the Board Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, interviewed by STARRS & Stripes...
The Man Who Brought Socrates to the Military
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors Last week when I read of Brigadier General (ret) Malham Wakin’s...
Through six decades, BG Mal Wakin blazed trails at Academy
(USAFA) Colleagues and former cadets remember retired Brig. Gen. Malham M. Wakin as the service academy’s educational...
What I have seen at VMI the last 3 plus years is appalling to me
Response by a VMI grad to this article, VMI alumni file lawsuit against institute’s official alumni association: Good...
VMI alumni file lawsuit against institute’s official alumni association
By Giovanna Johnson | The College Fix A frustrated group of Virginia Military Institute alumni, some of whom have...
US Military Academies Producing Beauty Queens
Really?? Sign of things getting quite off track at the academies. From Task & Purpose: The women who wear the crowns...
New Air Force Academy superintendent promises a ‘more demanding’ experience for cadets
By Mary Shin | The Colorado Springs Gazette The roar of two MC-130 special operations airlifters Friday over the Air Force...
From USAFA to Air Force Leader: Discipline, Mentorship, and Duty with Colonel Ron Scott
STARRS & STRIPES Interviews: Meet STARRS President and CEO Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 — his...
Interview with Calvert Task Group
CDM Host L Todd Wood speaks to Tom Burbage and Bruce Davey of Calvert Task Group on efforts to save the Naval Academy from...
Concerns I Have About West Point’s Ability to Accomplish Its Mission in Our Constitutional Republic
By LTC Victor Roeske, US Army ret USMA ’74 To: West Point Board of Visitors (BOV) From: Victor Roeske, West Point...
RIP: Brigadier General Malham M. Wakin
It is with heavy heart that STARRS learned of the passing on 29 July 2024 of an institution within the institution of the US...
DEI, Critical Race Theory Pervades Military Trainings: Report
By Megan Rosevear | The College Fix Diversity, equity and inclusion and critical race theory topics now pervade U.S. Armed...
Air Force Academy makes changes to honor code
By Mary Shin | Colorado Springs Gazette The Air Force Academy has revamped its honor code implementation for freshmen and...
Air Force Academy adding leadership training after critical DOD review
By Mary Shin | Colorado Springs Gazette The Air Force Academy is adding more leadership training to help cadets as they...
STARRS Town Hall 17 July 2024
Watch: STARRS held their 5th online Town Hall on 17 July 2024 hosted by STARRS President & CEO Colonel Ron Scott, PhD...
Leadership and Combat
By Maj. General Joe Arbuckle, USA ret STARRS Vice Chairman I’ve been deeply troubled by the social engineering verbiage...
Class of ’28: One of the most “diverse classes in U.S. Air Force Academy history”
The continued obsession with race, sex and identity. Focus on this divides rather than unifies as a team. (USAFA Press...
The Problem Isn’t that DEI Brings Us Women, The Problem Is that It Brings Us the Wrong Women
Michael R. Shevock, USCGA ’76 Like many of you, following the assassination attempt on former President Trump, I...
Calvert Task Group Announces the Upcoming Publication of ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’
The fate of our country is in the hands of the American people. The time to act is now. ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’ will be...
Liars Must Have No Connection to West Point
By Major General Paul Vallely, USA, Ret, USMA ’61 Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 Thirteen unequivocal words, simple and...
A Cadet and a Gentleman
A May 1960 letter to a West Point candidate from the Corps of Cadets: (click to enlarge) UNITED STATES CORPS OF CADETS West...
Letter to a General
Gen. Bishop responded to another general who dismissed or perhaps is unwilling to face the hard facts about what’s...
Pentagon “Personnel is Policy”
In the news recently were the controversial radical statements and woke lifestyle from the new associate communications...
Former Space Force Officer Says ‘Separate Chain Of Command’ Enforces ‘Divisive Ideology’ In Military Academy
By Harold Hutchinson | The Daily Caller A former United States Space Force officer said Saturday morning that diversity...
Judicial Watch Sues Defense Department for Records about Deletion of ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From West Point Mission Statement
(Press Release) Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S...
West Point Lecture Halls turned into Indoctrination Seminars
The experience of a West Point grad in dealing with the woke agenda at the Academy and in the military is detailed in Pete...
West Point Officer Arraigned on Charges of Drinking with Cadets, Violating No-Contact Orders
By Steve Beynon | Military.com A top West Point officer is facing a series of charges related to sexual misconduct...
As seen at the USAFA BX
On Sunday, a STARRS leader went to the Base Exchange at the Air Force Academy and saw this banner outside...
The Military Academies and a Biden Power Grab
By Richard A. Epstein | Wall Street Journal A lame-duck President Trump appointed Heidi Stirrup to a three-year term on...
West Point Teaches Lies
By “pyrene” West Point’s Cadet Honor Code says, “A cadet will not lie, steal, cheat, or tolerate those who do.”...
USAFA Class of 2024 by the Numbers
Typical obsessing about how many are or are not “minorities”. Who cares? In regards to Scott Sturman’s...
’95 USAFA Grad Becomes USAFA Vice Superintendent
(USAFA Press Release) The Secretary of the Air Force has named Maj. Gen. Thomas P. Sherman as the next U.S. Air Force...
2024 Thayer Award: What was the AOG Thinking?
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 The woke forces in government are deeply entrenched. There are more of them than can be...
Sparks Fly As Republicans & Dems Clash Over Affirmative Action Ban For U.S. Military Academy Admissions
At last week’s House Armed Services Committee hearing mark up for the NDAA, lawmakers debated an amendment barring...
Air Force Academy Graduates Call It Quits Before Their Careers Begin
By Scott Sturman, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors During their final year at the Air Force Academy (AFA), cadets...
Obama To Receive 2024 Sylvanus Thayer Award
West Point’s decision to give their honored Thayer award (given to General MacArthur in 1962) to man whom his college...
Now West Point is Graduating Beauty Queens
Here’s the THIRD Beauty Queen from a military academy recently and to boot, she’s “committed” to DEI...
Zampolits at the Coast Guard Academy
By CDR Salamander | Substack It has been a couple of years since we last checked in on the United States Coast Guard...
VMI administration countermanded direct orders from the Governor for one of VMI’s oldest and most honored traditions
Glenn Youngkin won election as Virginia Governor on a platform to end DEI/CRT and divisive policies in Virginia Schools that...
‘Gender neutral restrooms’ at U.S. military academies
By J. M. Phelps | WND It was just one more sign that Marxist “woke” ideology has infiltrated the U.S. military...
Lt Gen Rod Bishop: America faces an enemy that is clearly “inside our gates”
STARRS Chairman of the Board Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74, recently gave a talk at a VFW in...
Rep. Banks Passes Amendment to End Racial Discrimination at Military Academies
(Press Release) Today, Chairman of the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee Jim Banks passed an amendment to...
USAFA Graduated Another Beauty Queen
First USAFA 2023 grad Miss America Madison Marsh and now her 2023 classmate, Jessica Ahner is Miss Baltimore, in line to...
Air Force special operations boss tapped to run USAFA
Air Force special operations boss Lt. Gen. Tony Bauernfeind has been nominated to lead the U.S. Air Force Academy in...