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Former Air Force major who defied Biden vaccine mandate speaks out, applauds Hegseth

By Preston Mizell | Fox News A 16-year veteran and former Air Force major who voluntarily left the military after she...

SEN. TIM SHEEHY: 100 Days Of Putting Warfighters First

By Senator Tim Sheehy Former Navy Seal, USNA grad When I met with Pete Hegseth in early December ahead of his confirmation...

SECDEF Signed Memo to Provide Remedies for Service Members Hurt by Experimental COVID Vaccines – Now Those Affected Want to Know If Anyone Was Fired

By J. M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On April 23, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum to direct the...

Drew Dix Podcast – Pushback From Within

Drew Dix on pushback from within, is it undermining America’s strength? He also talks about the pushback in the military...

The Military’s Back, Baby: Why America’s Youth Are Signing Up Again

By Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret STARRS Board of Advisors The United States military is seeing its biggest recruitment surge in...

First 100 Days at the Department of Defense

Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Senior Advisor Sean Parnell provided the following statement:...

When do the Court Martials Begin?

By Dr. Robert Malone, MD | Malone News Substack I never thought I would see the day come when a high-level official in the...

Secretary of Defense Hegseth Orders Military Medical Standards Review

By Guy D. McCardle | SOFREP Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has officially ordered a full-spectrum review of the U.S...

The Uniform Is Not Invincible: Firing Generals Is Critical to Restoring Military Lethality

By Will Thibeau, US Army veteran President Trump and Secretary of Defense Hegseth relieved the chairman of the Joint Chiefs...

‘FIT, Not FAT!’: Pete Hegseth Promises Standard Overhaul After ‘Unacceptable’ Troop Fitness Report

By Virginia Kruta | The Daily Wire Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth promised an overhaul of military physical fitness...

Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell on the Conclusion of Service of DOD Advisory Committee Members

(DOD) Yesterday, informed by the recently concluded 45-day review of DOD advisory committees, Secretary of Defense Pete...

Hegseth Directs Review of Equal Opportunity Complaint Process

By David Vergun | DOD News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum April 23 titled “Restoring Good Order...

How DEI took a sledgehammer to the US military’s war ethos

By Col. Mackubin Owens, USMC (ret) U.S. civil-military relations rest on a fundamental contradiction. The United States...

Trump Asks SCOTUS To Uphold His Ban On Transgender Troops In The Military

By Mary Margaret Olohan | The Daily Wire President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to...

DOD Branch Chief Vows to Resist Trump and Hegseth

James O’Keefe released a new undercover video of a Department of Defense Branch Chief denigrating the Commander-in...

Most Dem-Voting Federal Bureaucrats Say They Would Disobey ‘Legal’ Orders From Trump, Poll Shows

By Hudson Crozier | The Daily Caller News Foundation A new poll found that a majority of federal employees who previously...

Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy

(White House Executive Order) By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United...

Defense Secretary Orders Additional Remedies, More Clarity on COVID-19 Reinstatements

By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News The defense secretary today signed a memorandum directing more clarity regarding the...

New Anti-Hegseth Op Illustrates The Media’s Campaign To Protect The Pentagon Status Quo

DC Swamp monsters continuing their all-out war to maintain their control over the Pentagon. By Shawn Fleetwood | The...

Hegseth Recaps 100 Days of DOD Accomplishments During Speech at War College

By Matthew Olay | DOD News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth summarized the Defense Department’s accomplishments over the...

‘Striking’: DC appeals court interrogates Trump admin on Pentagon’s transgender military ban policy

By Haley Chi-Sing, Jake Gibson | Fox News A three-judge appeals panel in Washington, D.C., grilled the Trump administration...

Military Readiness, Not ‘Woke’ Politics, Must Come First

By Terence Hagans, US Army veteran The recent decision by a U.S. District judge to block President Donald J. Trump’s...

The cost of political mandates still haunts our armed forces

By Nico Melendez, Navy veteran The U.S. military prides itself on discipline, merit, and readiness. But when politics...

There’s no more DEI at DOD, watchdog finds

By Lauren Williams | Defense One The Pentagon has officially eliminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion jobs, to...

Pentagon Review of Close Combat Training Standards Is Long Overdue

By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Ten years have passed since the Department of Defense initiated...

GAO Report: DEI Workforce Reductions at DOD

(GAO) The Department of Defense made changes to its diversity, equity, and inclusion workforce, as required by a 2024 law...

Students sue Defense Department over book bans in military schools

More woke indoctrinated military kids news. Future soldiers?: By Leo Shane | Military Times The American Civil Liberties...

Fired Insubordinate Officers Reveal Massive U.S. Military Resentment Against Elected Civilian Command

By Cynical Publius, retired Army Colonel Follow him on X: @CynicalPublius There is a cancer in America’s military ranks, and...

The Pentagon Must Go on the Offensive to Defeat Politicized Officers

By Col. Kurt Schlichter, USA ret That Space Force colonel in command in Greenland – well, formerly in command in Greenland –...

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...

Drew Dix Podcast – Women in the Military

STARRS Board of Advisors member Drew Dix answers questions from last week’s Readiness episode and talks specifically...

Service Members Separated for Rejecting COVID Vaccine Can Be Reinstated, But There’s a Big Catch That Has Many Refusing

By Ole Braatelien | The Western Journal Service members separated for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine can now re-enlist, but...

Senior CIA Official Who Facilitated Biden’s Military COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Fired

By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News Terry Adirim, a senior Central Intelligence Agency official and former senior defense...

Pentagon Eliminates Woke Violations of Trump’s Executive Orders

By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell | The Daily Signal A senior Pentagon official ordered employees to cease all communications...

Hegseth quips ‘99.9%’ of DEI initiatives are gone from the military under Trump’s watch

By Diana Stancy | Fox News Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth quipped that the Trump administration has wiped out “99...

Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies

Continuing saga of woke military kids in DoDEA schools, a legacy of the woke agenda pushed on them for so long: By Rebecca...

Workforce Acceleration & Recapitalization Initiative Organizational Review

New memo from Deputy Secretary of Defense Stephen Feinberg regarding DOD workforce optimization. “To ensure the...

Senate confirms Trump’s pick for chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff

By Mary Clare Jalonick | The Associated Press The Senate confirmed retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine to become...

Military Met 2024 Recruit Contracting Goals, Plans for Repeat

By C. Todd Lopez | DOD News The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and Space Force met their contracting goals for new...

Reforming the Military’s Fitness Standards Is Vital, but Not the Only Step

By Tony Perkins | Washington Stand From the playing field to the battlefield, the realities of biology cannot be ignored...

Mixing Military and Politics

By Col. Phil Williams, USA ret STARRS Board of Advisors U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth issued a new directive that...

DOD Welcomes Back Service Members Impacted by COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate

(DOD) The Defense Department is taking significant steps to reinstate service members who were discharged due to the now...

If Congress Doesn’t Step In, Rogue Judges Will Trans The Military

By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness Former Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer recently...

STARRS Town Hall | The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance: Fighting Back Against the Military Reforms of the President and SecDef

STARRS held its quarterly Town Hall meeting on 9 April 2025 with special guest speakers Sam Shoemate, a retired Army...

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