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Cheating Without Consequences: The Rise and Tolerance of Mass Cheating at America’s Military Academies

By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In March 2025, the U.S. Air Force Academy announced that nearly 100 cadets were under...

Military schools offer test case for Trump education reforms

By Lexi Lonas Cochran | The Hill Military academies could increasingly show what President Trump wants to see from public...

USAFA and USMA end race consideration in admissions

By Nate Raymond | Reuters The U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor...

Newt’s World: Rep. Wesley Hunt on Service to Country

Newt Gingrich talks with Congressman Wesley Hunt, USMA ’04, U.S. Army veteran and Apache helicopter pilot, about his...

Tuberville’s proposal for academy athletes to go pro undermines duty

By Lt. Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret. Sen. Tommy Tuberville recently said he would pursue new rules in this year’s National...

How DEI Left Service Academies In A ‘State Of Decay,’ And How Trump Can Fix It

By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Since returning to office, President Trump has taken significant action to...

Reviving Warfighter Culture by Removing Divisive DEI – With Brig. General Chris Petty, USA ret

In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, interviews STARRS Board of Directors member retired...

After Action Report on Academy Superintendents Hearing

Prepared by members of the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates Here is a summary of the issues raised by Senators and...

Service Academy Hearing a Missed Opportunity

By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force Senior Executive Service, retired On March 26th, the Senate Armed...

A Capitol Hill Dud

By Colleen Roberts STARRS co-CT State Leader Anyone anticipating verbal ‘fireworks’ during the March 26, 2025 SASC “Status...

Senators question Air Force Academy superintendent, others about civilian faculty

By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs Gazette After the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth called for more service members to...

Senator: “The Academies must always remember why they were created in the first place.”

(Press Release) Yesterday, as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville...

End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies

By David Kane | Minding the Campus Secretary Peter Hegseth’s first order to the Department of Defense promised “a focus on...

Senate Hearing on Status of Military Service Academies – March 26, 2025

The Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing, “To conduct oversight and receive testimony on the status of the...

President Trump Appoints New Members to Three Service Academy Board of Visitors

After removing members of USAFA, USMA and USNA Board of Visitors appointed by Biden, President Trump named their...

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...

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