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Biden Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly STARRS Board of Advisors The nation is worried about serious national security threats, including Chinese...
Woke culture, victim mentality present danger to American society, retired Navy SEAL says
People who see themselves as victims are becoming the majority in America, and that trend will have dire consequences if it...
Naval Academy Removes Confederate Name From Campus Building
The U.S. Navy has changed the name of a Naval Academy campus building that formerly held the name of a Confederate leader to...
Biden signs ‘racial equity’ order requiring federal agencies to build ‘equity action plan’
President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order that directs all federal agencies to produce an annual “equity...
Merchant Marine Academy Statement on Painting
(Press Release) UPDATED Statement on Painting Entitled “Christ on the Water” at the United States Merchant Marine Academy –...
Meeting Military Recruitment Goals
By Bob Saxby, US Army, ret Recently we’ve heard arguments that the failure of the military to meet its recruitment goals is...
Feds Driven Away By Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Could Return or Get Payouts, Under a New Bill
Federal employees who left government or were fired due to President Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate could be reinstated or...
US ‘Woke’ Movement Mirrors Chinese Cultural Revolution
The “woke” movement that is currently engulfing America mirrors China’s Cultural Revolution under communist leader Mao...
New Biden EO Installs Equity Czars in Every Federal Agency; Converts Entire Exec Branch Into Woke DEI Cult
By American First Legal President Biden issued an Executive Order titled “Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for...
Rubio, Banks Introduce Bill to Regulate Transgender Service in U.S. Military
(Rubio Press Release) Under President Joe Biden, people who identify as transgender or have gender dysphoria can serve...
Military to Cover Travel Costs and Offer Leave for Troops Seeking Abortions
Service women will soon be able to have their travel expenses paid and receive up to three weeks of leave to obtain an...
Navy Lifts Deployment Restrictions on Sailors Not Vaccinated Against COVID-19
The Navy will no longer consider COVID-19 vaccination status when making decisions about sailor deployments – a reversal of...
Canadian military increasingly infiltrated by wokeness
Happening in the Canadian military too: Dallas Alexander, a former special operations sniper with Canadian Armed Forces...
Americans Die When Merit No Longer Matters
By Victor Davis Hanson A recent epidemic of airline near-misses deserves both attention and reflection. In mid-December, a...
STARRS Open Letter to Director, Defense Health Agency
Lieutenant General Telita Crosland, USA Director, Defense Health Agency 7700 Arlington Boulevard Falls Church, VA 22042...
Liars are promoting false history for a political agenda to fundamentally change America
By Brent Ramsey, retired USN Captain STARRS Member Today telling the truth has largely disappeared from public discourse...
Some transgender people would be disqualified from military service under new GOP bill
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., will introduce legislation this week to prohibit transgender people...
Political fights over military make US look weak to China and Russia, experts tell senators
Political bickering over the military makes the United States appear weak to adversaries such as China and Russia and...
Congress Must Probe Biden Administration’s Rationale for Vaccine Mandates
Piece by piece, Biden’s vaccine mandate policy is being taken apart. Congress abolished the vaccine mandate on military...
The Pentagon Mandated COVID Vaccines, But Then Ignored Concerns About Adverse Reactions, Whistleblowers Say
The Department of Defense (DOD) mandated the vaccine for all servicemembers and marketed it as safe, but whistleblowers say...
Air Force Under Secretary Jones, an LGBTQ Trailblazer, Is Stepping Down
The Air Force’s second-highest ranking civilian, Under Secretary Gina Ortiz Jones, is stepping down from her role...
Congressmen press DOD for Answers on Vaccine Mandate Reversal and Damage Done
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) and Subcommittee on Military Personnel Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN)...
Army Sees Safety, Not ‘Wokeness,’ as Top Recruiting Obstacle
(AP) While some Republicans blame the COVID-19 vaccine or “wokeness” for the Army’s recruiting woes, the military...
House GOP warns Biden’s policy blunders, China’s spying could worsen ‘alarming’ military recruitment crisis
Four House Republicans, all military veterans, are warning that the Biden administration’s handling of incidents like the...
‘Woke’ U.S. Military Recruitment Video vs China
(CBN News) The U.S. Army’s latest recruitment ad features a soldier who tells about her “two moms” and...
Biden appointee behind unlawful military vaccine mandate to step down
Dr Terry Adirim, the government bureaucrat behind the infamous and unlawful Pentagon vaccine mandate, will “leave her post...
DoD schools diversity chief responds to ‘racism’ claims
The Pentagon official who oversees diversity, equity and inclusion for the Defense Department’s schools is at the center of...
Military Pilots Reported 1,700% More Medical Incidents During the Pandemic
The number of medical events that triggered official reporting requirements among U.S. military pilots rose more than 1,700%...
Republicans Raise Concerns over a Historic Painting Covered at U.S. Marine Academy
Four House Republicans, all of whom attended U.S. military academies, authored a letter raising concerns over media reports...
Sen. Cruz brings Navy LT affected by vax mandate to SOTU
Senator Ted Cruz made a forceful statement recently by bringing Lieutenant Levi Beaird to President Biden’s State of the...
Four weeks later, military still waiting on post-vaccine guidance
A month after the Defense Department canceled the requirement that service members are vaccinated against COVID-19, the...
STARRS Open Letter to Congressman Pat Ryan
Dear Congressman Ryan, Congratulations on your election to New York’s 18th Congressional District. Unfortunately, your...
Pentagon pressured by GOP to stop forcing troops to pay back bonuses after forced separation
Congressional Republicans are demanding the Pentagon answer for severe recruitment and retention issues caused by several...
Wokeness is weakening the U.S. military
Republican GOP leaders and committee members on Armed Services vowed they’ll look for ways to slash “woke” spending from the...
Congressman Steube introduces The Safeguarding the U.S. Armed Forces and Service Academies Act
U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) introduced The Safeguarding the U.S. Armed Forces and Service Academies Act to...
Pentagon Quietly Expands Woke Transgender Policies in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors In his State of the Union speech...
Leftists Want a New Civil War
By Tony Lentini, West Point ’71 America’s Civil War, which raged from 1861 to 1865, was by far the bloodiest...
Vaccine litigation lingers after lifting of military mandate
Federal appeals court judges closely questioned a Biden administration attorney Monday on the consequences military...
Within Ranks, Trust in Our Military Declines Amid Politicization of National Defense
By Jack Kraemer Service members increasingly are concerned with the growing politicization of the U.S. military, recent...
The establishment is leading the ‘top-down, woke revolution’
Unlike the free-spirit days of the 1960s, when the proverbial revolutionaries on the left were fighting the establishment...
The Spirit of VMI Speaks: Deactivate DEI – A Call to Action
Often described broadly as a form of political correctness, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is a Marxist doctrine at...
‘Stunning Increase’ In Serious Harm Reports In Young Healthy Pilots: Army Lt. Col. Theresa Long
It’s been a year since four Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers found a sudden increase in various diseases in the...
Marines continue fight with DOD over vaccine mandate
Several members of the U.S. Marines are still fighting the U.S. Department of Defense in a lawsuit they filed over its...
Vaccine Mandate Reenlistment Act
Congressman Brian Mast: Did you know that there are 3,350 soldiers who have refused to let the government stick a needle in...
Rep. Roy, Sen. Rubio fight back against the woke politicization of the U.S. military
Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21) on January 31, 2023 introduced the Restoring Military Focus Act, to push back against the...
House GOP targets military ‘wokeness’
Top House Republicans say the Pentagon’s budget will be on the table as Republicans seek to negotiate spending cuts in...
Americans Demand Freedom from Woke Ideology
By Marco Rubio Many of my neighbors in Miami are immigrants from countries wrecked by socialist regimes. They came to...
Marine who left because of vax mandate runs for office
Veteran Marine Chandler Langevin left the military over a vaccine mandate, but he’s ready to serve again. He has filed...
China is ‘laughing’ as US culture war erodes combat readiness, says former defense secretary
Former Acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller (former Special Forces commander and Green Beret) said China “must be...