By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In March 2025, the U.S. Air Force Academy announced that nearly 100 cadets were under...
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Cheating Without Consequences: The Rise and Tolerance of Mass Cheating at America’s Military Academies
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.”...
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...