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Waltz, Banks Press West Point on Preferred Pronoun Role Play Guide
(Press Release) House Armed Services Military Readiness Subcommittee Chairman Mike Waltz (FL-6) and Military Personnel...
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...
West Point’s pronoun ‘play acting’ training exercise and CRT lecture
Congressmen Michael Waltz of Florida and Jim Banks of Indiana demanded answers from West Point regarding the school’s role...
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...
Senator says Navy mission was abandoned to ‘train everybody on transgender’
Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott criticized the U.S. military on March 17 as insufficiently “lethal,” claiming...
U.S. Rep Greg Steube Secures U.S. Coast Guard Guarantee to Readmit Wrongfully Disenrolled, Unvaccinated Cadets
(Press Release) U.S. Representative Greg Steube (R-Fla.) announced he secured guarantee from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy to...
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...
Mom Sues Military Officials Who Allegedly Retaliated Against Her Complaints Of School ‘Polysexual’ Posters
A New Jersey mom is suing military officials who deemed her social media post voicing concern over an elementary school’s...
FGA Sounds the Alarm on Permanent ‘Woke Army’ Being Assembled Inside the Federal Government
(Press Release) President Biden’s new ‘Equity Teams’ will embed gender ideology, environmental justice, radical racial...
Army’s Woke Drive Alienates Potential Recruits
By Michael Reagan (son of President Reagan) The U.S. Army has learned that if you torture data long enough it will confess...
Navy secretary cited climate change as top priority as Biden proposes shrinking the fleet
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro said he sees fighting climate change as a top priority for the Navy as the Biden...
The Tyranny of the DEI Bureaucracy
Diversity, equity and inclusion offices become weapons to intimidate and limit speech By the Wall Street Journal Editorial...
Dealing With Vaccine Mandate in Military: Former Marine Officer
Tommy Waller, a retired Marine Corps Officer and President and CEO of the Center for Security Policy, just left the military...
Pentagon Personnel Official Prioritizes DEI Over Recruiting
Two Senators wondered why 20 pages of the 26-page prepared statement by Defense Undersecretary for Personnel and Readiness...
US Military Recruitment Flatlines as American ‘Propensity to Serve’ Fades
. . . .Wagner was among eight officials representing the individual military branches and the Pentagon to testify on March...
Congressmen Reintroduce Bills to Stop Critical Race Theory in the Military
Republican Rep. Dan Bishop (NC-08) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) have reintroduced measures to stop funding of Critical Race...
Pentagon’s legal woes over COVID vaccine mandate persist
At the height of the global pandemic, the Pentagon in August 2021 decreed that all U.S. troops must get the COVID-19...
PR campaign to deny wokeness in military
Ongoing PR campaign to deny that leftist woke policies in the military are affecting recruiting: These are all the same...
Pentagon ‘Actively Working’ To Find Doctors Who Will Provide Hormones, Puberty Blockers For US Military Kids Abroad
Department of Defense (DOD) medical providers in Europe are stepping up efforts to identify civilian providers of hormone...
Grassroots Army Backs Senator’s Effort to Overturn Pentagon Abortion Policies
Conservative leaders representing millions of pro-life Americans are joining forces with Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., to...
General: Woke Military Stifling Recruitment
The Pentagon is blaming declining military recruitment numbers on the state and health of today’s youth, but that is a...
Pentagon’s ‘Strategic Management Plan’ Devotes Roughly One Out Of Every Six Pages To Diversity, Climate Change
Nearly one of every six pages of a document detailing the Pentagon’s management strategy are devoted to combating climate...
A Lecture Everyone Should Know
Would that every academy cadet and military servicemember know this information and how America has been deliberately...
Military Gender Pronoun Training
At a recent congressional hearing, the Air Force Chief Master Sgt. responded to a Congressmen’s question that the Air...
Air Force goes on DEI hiring spree: Top job pays up to $183,500
The U.S. Air Force this month launched an effort to hire a handful of senior-level diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)...
What People are Saying
The Defense One editor recently rebuked Sen. Ted Cruz who announced his upcoming book, “Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural...
Rep. Banks Pressures Merchant Marine Academy and West Point to Finally End Vaccine Mandates
(Press Release) On Saturday, three days after this oversight letter from Military Personnel Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Jim...
Sen. Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Stop Teaching CRT in the Military
By James Nault USNA ’81, ret Navy Captain Critical race theory and associated racist ideologies have “Established a...
The Army Might Be Ditching Its ‘Woke’ Image As It Faces Historic Recruiting Problems
The Army’s new branding campaign, unveiled Wednesday, shied away from social justice and diversity themes as it seeks to...
The Left’s Religion: Politician says DEI is “God”
By Everett Piper This week’s news from the frontline of the culture wars comes from Oklahoma, where a Republican state...
Merchant Marine Academy rescinds COVID vax mandate after Post report
By Caitlin Doornbos | New York Post The US Merchant Marine Academy canceled its COVID-19 vaccine mandate on Friday – two...
SPECIAL EVENT: The Assault On Our Children and Armed Forces
You are invited to attend either in-person or via livestream an evening American Conversation event on Friday, 24 March in...
Military Leaders Say DEI Initiatives Aren’t Hurting Recruiting, Accuse Congress Of Politicizing Armed Forces
The armed services’ top enlisted leaders asserted that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives haven’t damaged...
Thousands of unvaccinated service members could still be booted over rescinded COVID-19 policy
Thousands of military service members could still be discharged because they didn’t apply for a COVID-19 vaccination...
At congressional hearing, US military leaders deny assertions force is being politicized
Senior enlisted US military leaders pushed back against Republican lawmakers’ assertions on Thursday that the force is...
Merchant Marine Academy still won’t take COVID vaccine exemptions
By Caitlin Doornbos | New York Post Months after the Pentagon lifted its COVID-19 vaccine mandates, the US Merchant Marine...
Biden Budget to Fund ‘Transgender’ Treatments for Veterans
The Biden Administration’s proposed budget for 2024 includes funding for genital mutilation surgeries and hormone treatments...
Congressmen Address Marine Corps Recruitment Shortage Brought on by Vaccine Mandate
(Press Release) Rep. Greg Murphy, M.D. (NC-03), along with House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Mike Bost and Reps Max...
Members of Congress call on Marine Corps to fill critical roles with Marines cut due to vax mandate
Several House Representatives are calling on the Marine Corps to reach out to marines cut from service due to the military...
STARRS Provides Model Privacy Act Request to Access Vaccine-Related Military Records
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, UNITED STATES– Military authorities repeatedly continue to claim that the military’s COVID...
Is the military too ‘woke’ to recruit?
Lt. Col. Dan Rooney, former US Air Force fighter pilot and founder of Folds of Honor, and Maj. Gen. Edward Thomas, the...
STARRS Vaccine Education Task Force
Military authorities repeatedly continue to claim that the military’s COVID vaccine mandate was legal before it recently was...
Army Secretary Dragged For Prioritizing ‘Resiliency In The Face Of Climate Change’
United States Army Secretary Christine E. Wormuth took some heat via Twitter when she boasted on Thursday that the Army was...
New changes underway at VMI addressing DEI issue
(Spirit of VMI Press Release) The Spirit of VMI Political Action Committee (SOVP) was founded in February of 2021 in...