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Category - Air Force Academy
Admissions, Curriculum, and Diversity of Thought at the Military Service Academies
The House Armed Services Committee held a hearing today to receive testimony on admissions criteria and process, curriculum...
SFFA v. Harvard: Should our nation’s service academies be exempt from this landmark ruling?
By R. Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 It is all but impossible to make the case that there are “potentially distinct...
Jim Banks To Grill Military Academy Heads On Race-Based Admissions
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation House lawmakers plan to grill leaders of the military service academies...
Supreme Court affirmative action ruling exempts military academies. But for how long?
The organization that led the crusade against affirmative action at Harvard and the University of North Carolina is eyeing a...
The Military Academies Have Turned Into Woke Wastelands
By Francis Sempa | American Spectator In 1962, General Douglas MacArthur said to the Corps of Cadets at the US Military...
US military records reveal instructional materials on White privilege, CRT, Black Lives Matter
Military records obtained by a conservative watchdog show U.S. Air Force Academy instructional materials that include...
Critical Race Theory – In the Air Force Academy!
(Judicial Watch) Air Force Academy Instructional Materials Include Presentations on Critical Race Theory, White Privilege...
Pentagon Can Expect Legal Challenges To Race-Based Admissions Policies After Supreme Court Ruling, Experts Say
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Military academies will likely face legal challenges for their use of...
Lawmakers eye ending affirmative action at military academies
Thursday’s Supreme Court decision which ended the use of affirmative action in college admissions contained a carve out for...
Supreme Court Excludes Military Academies From Ruling Striking Down Race-Based Admissions
Unfortunate, because cadets still won’t know if they are selected because of their abilities or because of their skin...
New commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy
(USAFA press release) As he assumed command of the Cadet Wing, Brig. Gen. Gavin Marks described returning to the U.S. Air...
Inside the DEI Reading Room at the Air Force Academy
In the Soviet Army, each company had “political enlightenment dayrooms” (ie indoctrination rooms) which...
Military leadership is trying to hide its efforts to force leftist ideology on the ranks
By Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President Since the summer of 2020, members of Stand Together...
The destruction of the military by euphemisms
By Dr. Scott Sturman, MD, US Air Force Academy ’72 Marxists are masters of patience, disguise, and the use of...
Inside the ‘woke’ takeover of the US Air Force Academy
By Evan Smith, US Air Force Academy cadet [The author’s name has been changed to a pseudonym to protect the...
The Air Force has abandoned its mission in pursuit of radical social justice
By Mike Uecker, US Air Force Academy grad, USAF officer As a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a veteran with more...
To push woke ideology, Biden illegally gutted military academy oversight boards
By Michael Rose, USAFA ’69 and STARRS General Counsel and Richard Epstein The military academies present positive...
The military isn’t the place for woke social experiments
By Bill Smith Parent of a US Air Force Academy Cadet [This author’s name has been changed to a pseudonym to protect...
How DEI is destroying trust and unity within the ranks
By Lauren Evans U.S. Air Force Academy cadet [This author’s name has been changed to a pseudonym to protect the...
Military academies use affirmative action. Will the Supreme Court stop them?
The nation’s military service academies now enroll far more people of color than they did at the turn of the century, as...
Divide and Conquer: Radicalizing Military Education
By John Cauthen Retired naval officer, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 2002 Taught in the history department from...
Presentation to the USAF Academy Association of Graduates
STARRS Chairman of the Board, LTG Rod Bishop (USAF ret, USAFA ’74) and STARRS President COL Ron Scott, PhD (USAF ret...
Service Academy Admissions Examining Eliminating Standardized Test Scores
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA 1972 I have confirmed that USMA, USNA and USAFA are studying how to revise their admissions...
Air Force Chief of Staff has no problem with USAFA DEI training not to say Mom or Dad
At a House Armed Service Committee hearing, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown responded to Rep. McClain and Rep...
Air Force Academy Touts New Program To Combat Politicization In The Military
By Micaela Burrow, The Daily Caller News Foundation Administrators and a cadet at the Air Force Academy think a new program...
Prominent DEI Proponent and Black Scholar Gives Colvin Lecture at USAFA’s 2023 National Character and Leadership Symposium
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 STARRS Newsletter Editor and Chief Dr. Eddie Glaude Jr. was the Colvin keynote...
Records Show Air Force Academy Focus on Anti-American Critical Race Theory Training of Cadets
Judicial Watch announced today it received 167 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Defense which show the U.S. Air...
Judicial Watch Sues Department of Defense on Behalf of STARRS
STARRS filed Freedom of Information Act Requests related to claims of systemic racism at the U.S. Air Force Academy. One of...
Racial Preferences At Our Service Academies Are Not Essential To National Security
By Gen. Arthur E. Brown Jr., U.S. Army, retired, former Army vice chief of staff, former deputy superintendent of the U.S...