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President Trump Appoints New Members to Three Service Academy Board of Visitors
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...
SECDEF Hegseth: “The warfighters are back in charge.”
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was recently interview by Laura Ingraham during their visit to GITMO and as part of that...
Ever wonder why there are no statues of a post-WW2 West Point General?
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 Several factors go into demand for immortalization of a West Point graduate in the form...
Lethality in Education: Athenian Scholarship, Roman Virtus, Maccabean Grit, & Muscular Christianity
By Lt. Col. Chuck Duray, PhD, USA ret, USMA ’92 STARRS Volunteer For many years, the U.S. military possessed...
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz?
Did a woke West Point professor mock then Rep. Michael Waltz over his concern of racial indoctrination of cadets at the...
To Achieve Unity, DEI Must End
Letter to the Editor by Larry Purdy, USNA ’68 to the Baltimore Sun regarding the article: “Military academies review...
Woke Ideology Has Captured Military Academies—It Must Be Eradicated to Strengthen National Security
By John Gentry, retired US Army Reserve officer and CIA analyst President Trump’s ban on “diversity, equity, and inclusion”...
West Point: “A once storied institution overcome by corruption”
A recent post on LinkedIn about West Point has been receiving a lot of attention. Entitled, “Behind the Walls of West...
ATTEND or Submit Statements: West Point Board of Visitors Meeting 11 March 2025
UPDATE: On 27 February, the Designated Federal Officer for the West Point Board of Visitors sent out an email stating...
NEW BOOK: “West Point’s Cult of DEI” by John Hughes
The #1 graduate in the 1996 West Point graduating class, John Hughes, MD, a veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan and Haiti, has...
LTG Gilland Is DEI At West Point
By John Hughes, MD, USMA ’96 John was the #1 graduate in his class and a 3rd Generation West Pointer. He had 4 combat...
Identity/Affinity Clubs at Military Academies Divide People
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72, Attorney If you are not aware of this recent social media post by the USMA Deputy...
STARRS Attorney Mike Rose on the firing of Service Academy Board of Visitors
Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, STARRS General Counsel and Executive Vice President, was on the show Output to talk about the...
The President Dismisses Board of Visitors for Service Academies
This morning, President Trump posted on his social media his plans for the Board of Visitors of the service academies while...
SECDEF reminds Academy Supes: “These are MILITARY ACADEMIES, not civilian universities.”
Secretary of Defense Hegseth recently posted on his social media that he had met with the three superintendents of the...
Narrative Alert: Legacy media coordinating to oppose removal of identity-based clubs at West Point
The Commander-in-Chief and the SECDEF have removed identity-based activities which separate service members from one another...
Defense Department runs kindergartens?
By David Goodwin With less than a week on the job, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has just been directed by President...
Watchdog Sues West Point for Withholding Records About Its False Claims Against Pete Hegseth
By Andrew Kerr | Washington Free Beacon A watchdog group sued the United States Military Academy at West Point on Tuesday...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...