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‘Mean-Spirited’: West Point Denied Travel For Unvaccinated Cadet After Mandate Was Overturned
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has denied travel requests...
House Armed Services press Pentagon on ‘woke’ school admin who made anti-white comments
A House Armed Services subcommittee is pressing the Pentagon about whether it has taken any action against a Defense...
Pentagon salaries for diversity, equity, inclusion staff capped at $31K under Senate bill
A new bill being pushed by Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Jim Banks would cap the salaries of any Pentagon employees working...
Pentagon must ditch ‘woke,’ focus on readiness to deter China from taking Taiwan
The chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Readiness is warning that it’s only a matter of time...
Congressman Demands Answers On Chinese Communist Party Links To Junior Military Programs At American Schools
Republican Rep. Mike Waltz of Florida asked the Pentagon about the extent of military preparation programs at U.S. private...
Even after mandate lifted, unvaccinated sailors claim they’re being punished for their religious beliefs
A new brief filed in federal court alleges that the U.S. Navy continues to punish and discriminate against more than 4,000...
Why Woke Has No Place in Military Service
By Thomas Klocek, USNA ’69 The current climate of being “woke” is all about oneself. It is political correctness on...
Poll: Nearly Seven in 10 Active Service Members Have Witnessed Politicization in U.S. Military
(Heritage Foundation) A new survey of active U.S. military members reveals that 68 percent have witnessed some or a...
West Point reimposes travel ban on unvaxxed cadets, despite repeal of military vax mandate
The United States Military Academy is reimposing restrictions on unvaccinated cadets despite the lifting of the...
Navy SEALs Still Face ‘Religious Discrimination’ Even After Vaccine Mandate Overturned
Navy SEALs in a court battle with the Biden administration over its alleged failure to consider their religious exemption...
Military Must Recruit More Women, Immigrants for the Future Force
Two articles about a recent symposium on the Future of the All-Volunteer, All-Recruited Force held at the Naval War College...
Status Of Military Vax Mandate -USAF 1LT John Bowes, Atty Dale Saran
Information Operations host L Todd Wood speaks with those at the tip of the spear of the fight against medical tyranny in...
Military Recruiters Beg Marines Booted Over COVID Vax To Come Back
Marine Corps recruiters are sending out texts to former members who left active or reserve duty over the COVID-19 vaccine...
The Usurpation Of Martin Luther King Day
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors At the age of thirty-five Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel...
US Merchant Marine Academy hides Jesus painting behind curtain after complaint from advocacy group
By Jon Brown | Fox News The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) in Kings Point, New York, has covered up a large painting...
‘Kick in the face’: Service members forced to pay back signing bonuses after being fired over COVID vax
U.S. service members who were fired for refusing to comply with the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate are now being...
Senators push to reinstate service members fired over Covid vaccine
A statement of support from STARRS LTG Rod Bishop for the Americans Act was included in this Senator Cruz press release:...
DoDEA sources speak out about woke ‘Marxist’ indoctrination
The Department of Defense Education Activity has been plunging into woke ideology which includes hypersexual and woke...
A Sailor’s Reflections on Race and the Navy
By Brent Ramsey, Captain, USN, Ret I have previously explained the concept of “shipmate” through the recounting of the Navy...
The Naming Commission Comes for West Point
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D., retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian Created by the fiscal 2021 national...
Ted Cruz to reintroduce bill reinstating military members fired over vax mandates: ‘We will keep fighting’
Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz is reintroducing his bill to reinstate military service members who were fired over...
Healing The Force – Are Military Vax Injured?
Information Operations host L Todd Wood speaks with Dr. Scott Sturman (AFA ’72), a member of STARRS Board of Advisors...
Weapon of self-destruction: Biden’s obsessive hunt for extremism in the military
By Robert Wilkie Former Secretary of Veterans Affairs and as the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness...
Congressman introduces bill to reinstate unvaccinated troops
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) unveiled a bill on Friday that would reinstate troops booted from the military for refusing the...
How Today’s “Diversity” Damages our Military
By Brig. General Chris Petty, USA, ret Member, STARRS Board of Directors Diversity sounds great. That’s part of the problem...
Air Force pilot near retirement could lose pension despite vaccine mandate repeal: I’m in ‘purgatory’
An Air Force reservist sounded the alarm on the U.S. military’s treatment of service members who refused the COVID-19...
CMR Challenges New Congress to End Woke-ism in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) Member of the STARRS Board of Advisors The armed...
Pentagon: No Back Pay to Troops Discharged for Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine
The Pentagon on Tuesday shut down speculation it’s considering back pay for service members it discharged for refusing to...
DEI Training: Harmful, Phony, And Expensive
In a NYT op-ed, Jesse Singal says that DEI training sessions are expensive, and either don’t work or are even...
New House ‘Anti-Woke Caucus’ will push back on ‘wokeness tyranny’ in schools, military, govt
A Republican in the House of Representatives will be forming a new caucus to take on “wokeness” across the...
Navy Swats ‘Wokeness’ Claims in Bid to Reach Older Americans Who Could Influence Recruiting
As Navy leaders left another conference behind, one thing that emerged from the Surface Navy Association panels and...
‘Wokeness,’ politicization of the military ‘alarming,’ warns Rep. Michael Waltz
STARRS LTG Rod Bishop is a member of the Heritage Foundation’s National Independent Panel on Military Service and...
Pentagon mulls back pay for troops kicked out over Covid vaccine mandate
The Pentagon is considering providing back pay to former service members who were discharged for refusing to get the Covid...
68 Percent of Active Duty Military Believe Pentagon Is Politicized
The vast majority of U.S. active duty military members believe the Pentagon has become politicized, according to data...
US Coast Guard Apparently Had Pre-Written Denials For Vaccine Exemption Requests, Docs Show
The Coast Guard had pre-written justifications for denying COVID-19 vaccine exemption requests, according to documents...
The Pandora’s Box of mRNA Covid Vaccines
By Scott Sturman, MD, USAFA ’72 STARRS Board of Advisors Recently, Hunter Brown, a United States Air Force Academy cadet and...
Go Woke, Become Weak: The Consequences of Lowering Military Recruiting Standards, from a former Commander’s Perspective
By LTC Darin Gaub, USA, ret. The American military in which I served for twenty-eight years continues to struggle to meet...
Thoughts on The (Un)Naming Commission
By Forrest L. Marion, PhD, retired US Air Force officer and military historian The congressionally mandated Naming...
Pentagon Officially Overturns Military Vaccine Mandate
The Department of Defense (DOD) officially scrapped the requirement that all members of the armed forces be fully vaccinated...
Diversity Is Not Just a Navy Issue
By Captain Guy Higgins, U.S. Navy (Retired) In the August 2022 Proceedings, Navy Lieutenant Commander Aaron Marchant...
Former Green Beret warns of extreme narrative pushed into the military and US institutions
Former Green Beret Ivan Raiklin argued on a recent episode of “Tucker Carlson Today” on Fox Nation that the...
CMR Challenge for 2023: Woke-ism in Our Military
The Center For Military Readiness (CMR) issued their 2023 challenges to Congress. Elaine Donnelly is the president and...
After Coast Guard Academy ‘Excommunicated’ Cadets For Refusing Vaccine, Pleas For Reinstatement Go Unanswered
Seven Coast Guard cadets booted in September after commanders denied their vaccine exemption appeals were not reinstated...
Pentagon Scrambles to Prep New COVID Rules as Vaccine Mandate Nears End
(Defense One) Pentagon leaders, who must scrap their COVID-vaccine mandate within three weeks, are trying to figure out what...
Update on Military Vax Mandate
LTG Rod Bishop was on the His Glory: Lions & Generals podcast to talk about the latest information on the military vax...
We the People Pulse – How to Increase Army Recruitments?
An op-ed was written on Fox News by a Washington intelligence insider and a marketing academic, both of whom never served in...
Lowering Recruitment Standards in the Military
Recruitment is down throughout all the services, in a large part because of the increasing Marxist/Woke ideology invading...
A Government Woke and Broken
“Today, the Soldier approached his commanding officer to discuss his newly confirmed pregnancy.” The above sentence might...
House Republicans attack Defense Department for ‘woke’ social policies
House Republicans plan to open a new front in the culture wars: attacking the Pentagon for its “woke” social...