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Supplemental Notice of Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air Force Academy Meeting
Leftist Accrediting Organizations Influence U.S. Military Academies
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Agencies responsible for approving accreditation of America’s five military service...
Conscientious Objector USAFA ’23 Grad has to pay back $150K
Update on that 2023 USAFA cadet who became a conscientious objector after Israel’s bombing of Gaza. We covered her...
USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting – August 7, 2025
The next US Air Force Academy Board of Visitors meeting open to the public will be on Thursday, August 7 from 8:30 am to...
How to Monitor Military Academy Admissions
By David Kane | Minding the Campus From the Military Times: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has barred the U.S. military...
Civilian Service Academy Profs Complain about “Academic Freedoms” in Military Academies
Professors used to having academic freedoms from their colleges and universities—nearly all of which have a left-wing bias...
Congressman Protects Women’s Sports at U.S. Military Service Academies
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) introduced the Protection of Women in Sports at Military...
Retired Air Force Brigadier General Soils His Uniform to Defend Trans Ideology in the Military
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News Martin France is a prime example of dangerous political activists infecting the...
Senator Introduces Legislation to Protect Women’s Sports at Military Service Academies
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced legislation to prohibit men from participating in women’s...
Hegseth Was Right to Ban Race in Admissions At Military Service Academies, but Not for the Reasons You Might Think
Not too sure about his point about recommendations from the 2011 Military Leadership Diversity Commission not being...
This bill will help make military officers worthy of our republic
By Tim Feist, USMC vet, taught at USNA Earlier this month, Sen. Jim Banks introduced legislation to require the U.S service...
New bill in House would codify Trump’s order banning woke curriculum from U.S service academies
By Kerry Picket | The Washington Times A House GOP lawmaker introduced legislation Thursday that would codify President...
One-Sided Reporting on Transgender USAFA Cadets Article
Opposite to the previous post, USAFA 1960s Recruiting Film: “What Makes a Man”, if things hadn’t changed, it could...
USAFA 1960s Recruiting Film: “What Makes a Man”
The United States Air Force presents “What Makes a Man: The Story of the United States Air Force Academy,” a mid-1960s...
DEI in military academies is ‘corrosive’ to national defense
By Christina Schuler | Florida Today Will Thibeau, director at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of...
Update: 10th Medical Group at USAFA Command Board
Update to this story, the photos of the Commander-in-Chief and Secretary of Defense have been posted. STARRS President Ron...
Senator Introduces Legislation to Expand Classical Learning Test to Service Academies
(Press Release) Senator Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced the Promote Classical Learning Act. The bill requires U.S. military...
Certification of Merit-Based Military Service Academy Admissions
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor, Sean Parnell, on Certification of Merit-Based Military Service...
Response to Opinion Piece on USAFA civilian reduction plans
STARRS President Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 wrote a letter to the editor of the Denver Post in reference...
LETTER: Message sent to USAFA Cadets
A letter to the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette: Last week I was at the 10th Medical Group Clinic at the Air Force...
Air Force Academy’s Staff Cuts Unclear Amid Mass Resignations; Cadets Assured of World-Class Education
By Mary Shinn | Colorado Springs News Gazette While the Air Force Academy sent a letter to incoming cadets early last week...
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...
LETTER: USAFA Mission Statement
Letter to the Editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette: This letter is in response to an April 17 article, “Air Force Academy...
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...
Response to USAFA Professor
This is a response the STARRS Chairman gave to a long post on Facebook written by an assistant professor of English at USAFA...
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...
LETTERS: AFA cutting civilian staff; a very specific mission
STARRS President Ron Scott wrote a letter to the editor of the Colorado Springs Gazette in response to an article: AFA...
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...
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...
Habits of Honor, Faith, and Patriotism – Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai
One of the new appointees to the USAFA Board of Visitors is retired Air Force Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai, a 1989...
USAFA DEI Chief’s Title Changes
A USAFA grad alerted us to the fact that USAFA’s Chief, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Officer had changed his...
Unity Letter to USAFA AOG
The five STARRS-recommended Unity slate of candidates to be on the Board of Directors of the US Air Force Association of...
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...
Air Force Academy Reverses Decision, Allows Muslim Cadets to Forgo Physical Training During Ramadan
The Air Force Academy recently held a new more rigorous “cumulative exercise” which is “an essential...
USAFA Cadets test warfighter readiness in spring CULEX
(USAFA) U.S. Air Force Academy cadets took on the rigorous Spring 2025 Culminating Exercise (CULEX), an essential training...
From Flying F-4s to Fighting DEI: A Veteran’s Journey to Restore Military Values
STARRS & Stripes podcast host Al Palmer and guest Ron Olds, two veteran F-4 Phantom pilots during the Vietnam War...
Unity Slate wins seats on USAFA AOG Board of Directors
STARRS recommended five Unity Slate candidates to run for the Board of Directors of the Air Force Academy’s...
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...
Air Force Academy Investigating Nearly 100 Cadets for Cheating, Honor Code Violations
By Thomas Novelly | Military.com Nearly 100 cadets at the Air Force Academy in Colorado are being investigated after...
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”...
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...
Reaction to President Trump Firing the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors
Mike Rose, USAFA ’69, STARRS General Counsel and Executive Vice President, was on the Richard Randal show talking...
DAF Curriculum and Training Guidance to comply with Executive Orders
Curriculum and Training Guidance Implementation Subsequent to Executive Order, “Restoring America’s Fighting Force,” 27...