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Missouri Attorney General Questions Department of Defense on Support of Child Transgenderism
A letter from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey to Secretary of Defense Gen. Lloyd Austin, which was exclusively...
The Woke Military
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret), USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief Recently the senior enlisted leaders from each...
DoD Vaccine Policy Update
By Joe Arbuckle, MG, USA (Ret) STARRS Vice Chairman of the Board After NDAA Win, STARRS Continues the Fight to Restore Those...
Status of Vaccine Refusers & DoD/Service Policies
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The FY 23 NDAA rescinded the COVID-19 vaccine...
Is There Evidence of Adverse Vaccine Impacts on Service Members?
By Tracey Meck, Colonel, USAF (Ret) USAFA ’87 Newsletter Editor and Chief The VAERS database shows more vaccine injuries in...
DOD’s 1st Pandemic Preparedness Plan In 2007 Required NO Mandated Masks Or Vaccinations
By Jim Zietlow, Colonel USAF (retired) US Air Force Academy Class of 1987 Former lead military planner for the 2007 DOD...
Military Readiness or Military Wokeness?
STARRS Board of Advisors member Elaine Donnelly was interviewed on Crosstalk to discuss military readiness versus military...
GOP Will Push Forward with Plans to Root Out ‘Woke’ Military Agenda
House Republicans expect to press forward with legislation targeting Pentagon policies they view as “woke”...
This woke Pentagon video delivers a dangerous message
By Rod Dorilas, Navy veteran When a Navy training video on the use of preferred pronouns emerged last year, many people...
Our military is in a dangerous decline and this is the reason why
By Rep. Michael Waltz, US National Guard Col. Dr. Kevin Roberts, President, Heritage Foundation The U.S. Armed Forces have...
Veterans to Congress: Wokeness is Hurting Readiness
By Dave Patterson, retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam and a former Principal Deputy Under...
Military’s crusade for ‘diversity’ a delusion, says vets group
American Family News journalist J.M. Phelp wrote an article about STARRS and interviewed STARRS LTG Rod Bishop: A group of...
Defense Department ‘Drastically Shifted Off Course’
America is facing “the most serious and alarming recruiting and retention crisis that we’ve seen since Vietnam,” Rep. Mike...
Senator blasts DOD woke agenda at military bases
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Steve Daines issued the following statement about the 2021 “Drag Story Time” hosted at...
Pentagon disbands DEI unit after chief accused of ‘racism’ against Whites, injects agenda deeper into agency
The Pentagon’s education wing for the children of military members – the Department of Defense Education Activity –...
Report of the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness
STARRS Chairman of the Board LTG Rod Bishop, USAF ret, is a member of the National Independent Panel on Military Service...
U.S. Military Isn’t Venue for Social Experiments and Political Correctness
(Press Release) Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs Chairman Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) opened a...
If we cannot defend our nation rhetorically, we will be unable to do so kinetically
By Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, USMA 2008 Former Army Captain Bio My name is Dr. Meaghan Mobbs, and I am the daughter of two former...
Take Politics Out of the Military
By Jeremy Hunt, USMA, 2015 Former Captain, US Army Watch the latest video at foxnews.com US military has ‘serious...
Public Perceptions of the Politicization of the Military is Impacting Readiness Today
By Brent D. Sadler, USNA ’94 Captain, US Navy, ret Bio Bottom Line Up Front: Too many Americans believe the military...
Vets Blame Biden’s Focus on Woke Priorities for Low Military Recruitment Numbers
America is facing a “once in a generation military recruitment crisis” due to the Pentagon’s focus on woke...
Top Military Officials Questioned over Drag Shows on Military Bases
The military’s top uniformed officer suggested Wednesday he does not support drag shows being hosted on military...
General Mark Milley Commits to End Drag Queen Story Hour on Military Bases
(Press Release) During Wednesday’s House Armed Services Committee (HASC) hearing on the “FY24 Defense Budget Request,”...
Woke activists are hollowing out our military
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio blasted the Pentagon’s increasingly leftward bent as it struggles to keep up with national security...
As Pentagon struggles to fill military requests, funding goes to diversity, Critical Race Theory
The Pentagon is increasingly struggling to fill the weapons and equipment requests for the war in Ukraine. At the same time...
Americans Have Stopped Trusting the Pentagon With Their Lives
By COL Kurt Schlichter, US Army, ret Right now, many of us vets are looking back on our years of service and wondering what...
The Military Should Reject DEI and CRT
By MG Patrick H. Brady, US Army (ret) and Congressman and Col. Michael Waltz, US Army With recruitment rates to the U.S...
Warriors Don’t Want to Fight for a Woke, Anti-American Military
By JB Shurk “Why are recruitment numbers in the toilet? Because hardworking, athletic, intelligent warriors who...
DOD officials: diversity in the military is more important than commonality
At a House Armed Services Committee hearing last week, Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) asked the question to Undersecretary of...
Rep. Jim Banks: Biden Pentagon Focusing on DEI Instead of Protecting America
House Armed Services Subcommittee for Military Personnel Chair Jim Banks (R-IN) in a recent exclusive interview with...
The Military Depends on Virtues That Are Fading
The U.S. military is facing a recruitment crisis. It is so severe that in September, Senator Thom Thillis referred to an...
The DOD Plays Hardball with Covid Vaccinations
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors [STARRS Lt Gen Rod Bishop USA (ret) and MG Joe Arbuckle USA (ret)...
Washington’s Dangerous Unseriousness
Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian “In the U.S. military today, one...
Biden Defense Officials Defend Diversity, Equity, Inclusion in the Military
Biden Pentagon officials in charge of military personnel policy defended pushing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in...
4 Takeaways as Lawmakers Probe Pentagon’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Efforts
President Joe Biden has extensively promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion as the focus of government agencies, including...
Pentagon Pulls Radical Anti-White DEI Official From Key Post
A radical activist who has made anti-white comments is no longer in charge of “diversity” at the schools children of...
Congresswoman Announces Removal of Woke Officer from Military Children’s Schools
(Press Release) Congresswoman Elise Stefanik announced that, following her advocacy, DoDEA Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion...
Military Had “Concerning” Rise In Myocarditis Cases In 2021
Recently released data has revealed that the U.S. military saw a spike in the rate of myocarditis diagnoses in 2021...
Senator Schmitt Questions Biden Military Officials on Military Recruitment, DEI Initiatives
(Press Release) Senator Schmitt questioned Biden military officials from the Army, Navy, and Air Force about lagging...
STARRS: ‘What People are Saying’ about Radicalism in the Military
STARRS (Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services) has collected perspectives on readiness issues from...
‘That’s Just Not True’: Senator Slams Military Officials For Blaming ‘Discrimination’ For Recruiting Problems
Sen. Roger Wicker denied at a hearing Wednesday that discrimination is a problem in the military after service leaders...
Pentagon Officials Deny They Have ‘Diversity’ Targets, But Their Own Documents Tell A Different Story
Military officials told lawmakers the services do not entertain diversity quotas of any kind on Wednesday, but the...
Senator unloads on Pentagon’s ‘obsession’ with equity agenda: ‘Totem pole of grievances’
Sen. Eric Schmitt on Wednesday tore into Pentagon leaders for defending an agenda that stresses issues like diversity and...
Pentagon doctors claim 7-year-olds can make decisions to be injected with hormones, puberty suppressants
Health providers at U.S. military bases, some of whom are involved in treating military-connected minors, blasted the idea...
Sen. Schmitt Demands Answers from SECDEF on DOD’s Prioritization of DEI over Military Preparedness
(Press Release) Senator Eric Schmitt sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demanding answers on the Department...
Evidence that the DEI/CRT agenda in the military DOES hurt recruiting and retention
From January 2023 to December 2024, STARRS collected evidence of a large elephant in the room regarding the recruiting...
Our military is not ready to fight the PRC
By Brent Ramsey, USN Captain (ret) STARRS Member We are at war but most Americans are blissfully unaware. Folks are busy...
Retired Green Beret’s testimony to Congress on Afghanistan pull-out
The House Foreign Affairs Committee received testimony from retired Lt. Col. David Scott Mann, a Green Beret and founder of...
New VA Mission Statement
(VA Press Release) On Thursday, the Veterans Administration announced an updated version of its 1959 mission statement: “To...