(Press Release) Yesterday, as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel,U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville...
Category - Air Force Academy
Senator: “The Academies must always remember why they were created in the first place.”
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.”...
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...
Air Force Academy drops ‘Diversity and Inclusion Studies’ minor
By CJ Womack | Campus Reform The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado has removed the “Diversity and Inclusion...
What Happened When DEI Came to the Military?
By Madeleine Rowley | Free Press Retired Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker, 59, spent almost two years as...
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...
DEI at USAFA re-designated to “Dignity Respect and Leadership”
By STARRS Chairman Lt Gen. Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 Dear Friends and especially Parents and Cadets, If you...
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...
Woke Warfare: A Documentary Exposing DEI’s Dangerous Grip On The U.S. Military
Secure America Now has released a new documentary on the threat of CRT/DEI ideology in the military. STARRS leaders Ron...
I Fell in Love with the Law: Interview with Attorney Mike Rose, USAFA ’69
STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel Mike Rose was interviewed by Brad Dacus of the Pacific Justice Institute...
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...
Our Woke Military
By Mike McDaniel, USAF veteran Harris/Biden military officials have denied their addiction to DEI, CRT and wokeness in...
Ponytails and braids ‘foster inclusivity’
A female admissions liaison officer at the U.S. Air Force Academy recently wrote an op-ed in the Air Force Times titled...
USAFA’s NCLS 2025: “Examining Warrior Ethos”
By Randy Roughton U.S. Air Force Academy Strategic Communications The upcoming National Character and Leadership...
Air Force Academy sued over race-conscious admission practices
By Haylee May | Colorado Public Radio News The United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs is being sued over its...
Affirmative Action Opponents Sue US Air Force Academy
By Nate Raymond | Reuters The group that successfully persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to ban race-conscious admissions at...
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...
Message from Brig. General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
For those who don’t know me, my name is Chris, callsign “Mookie”, Walker and I retired last year as a Brigadier General...
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...
Let’s Make the Air Force Academy Soar Once More
By Patrick “Kit” Bobko, USAF veteran, USAFA ’91 Here are five things to make the venerable institution, which has struggled...
Air Force Academy official forms refer to Fathers and Mothers as “Non-Birthing Parents”
By STARRS Utah’s Senator Mike Lee posted on X that he had recently spoken with the father of a U.S. Air Force Academy...
Military Leadership Indoctrinated by DEI?
Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch talks about the military, including Judicial Watch’s recent FOIAs of the service...
A Conversation with USAF Brigadier General Christopher “Mookie” Walker
In this episode of STARRS & Stripes, host CDR Al Palmer, USN ret, talks with retired Air Force Brigadier General...
USAFA Grad Congressman Pfluger Demands DOD Re-Affirm First Amendment After USAFA-SJSU Shirt Controversy
By Dan Zaksheske | Outkick Last month, OutKick exclusively reported that an Air Force Academy graduate was denied entry...
Securing America interviews STARRS Chairman LTG Rod Bishop
Securing American host Frank Gaffney interviews STARRS Chairman LTG Rod Bishop, USAF re, on the divisive DEI agenda...
Supreme Court turns away Trump military board appointees’ fight against Biden firings
By Zach Schonfeld | The Hill The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal from several allies of former President Trump...
Reviewing ‘We All Wear Green, We All Bleed Red’
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Larry Purdy has written a lengthy article titled “We All Wear Green...
Two Disturbing Stories Regarding the Academies
These two similar stories were recently seen in comment sections on two different articles on different websites: “A...