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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...

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...

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...

USAF 2nd LT & USAFA Grad: “Policies of current administration align more with policies of a government our country fought against in the 1940s”

Recall previous article: USAF 2nd LT: “It’s thanks to the Air Force Academy that I currently have an anti-war stance.”...

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