By Lt. Col. Darrin Gaub, USA ret You will notice that I did not use the other “trans” word in the title because...
Category - Issues
Additional DOD guidance on service members adversely impacted by C19 vax mandate
(DOD USD Personnel & Readiness Memo) The Department of Defense continues to take action in support of warfighters...
Reviewing the Department’s Military Educational Institution Library Collections
Statement by Chief Pentagon Spokesman and Senior Advisor, Sean Parnell: Today, the Department issued guidance to senior...
Pete Hegseth says West Point professor who resigned over Trump admin education overhaul ‘will not be missed’
By Christina Shaw | Fox News A West Point professor’s resignation over education shifts brought, in part, by the Trump...
Active-Duty Military on TikTok
Ongoing weird trend of active-duty servicemembers telling it all/showing it all on their TikTok accounts–in uniform. A...
Sen. Banks Asks Gen. Tata How He Will ‘All Together Eliminate’ DEI Programming From Military
During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Senator Jim Banks questioned Brig. General Anthony J. Tata...
Senators introduce the Reaffirming Every Servicemember’s Trust Over Religious Exemptions (RESTORE) Act
(Press Release) U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced...
New Chase Spears Podcast: Finding Your Spine
Retired Army PAO Chase Spears, who spoke on our last Town Hall “The Military’s Leftwing Ideological Resistance:...
Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin To Enforce Transgender Military Ban
By Katelynn Richardson | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Tuesday to...
How Department of Defense Educational Activity Staff Co-Opted Diversity Equity and Inclusion Protests
By Lt Col. Ken Segelhorst, USA ret In early 2025, students at Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools...
The China Threat Is Worse Than You Can Imagine
Book review of “Seven Things You Can’t Say About China” by Senator Tom Cotton. Reviewed by Capt. Brent Ramsey...
How wokeness infected even horse shows
By Judge Bruce Tucker Smith Retired United States administrative law judge 21-year veteran of the United States Air Force...
White House: “We are going to have a system of merit”
By Jessica Guynn | USA TODAY The White House put corporate America on notice that President Donald Trump plans to replace...
STARRS Presentation on April 28, 2025
STARRS President Ron Scott and Executive Vice President/General Counsel Mike Rose gave the presentation, “The American...
Statement: Providing Supplemental Remedies for Service Members and Veterans Negatively Impacted by the DOD Defunct Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vax Mandate
(DOD) Under the leadership of Secretary Hegseth, the Department of Defense has acted swiftly to support Service members and...
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...
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...
It is time to admit what the Marxist Left has done to black Americans
By Kendall Qualls, US Army Veteran President of TakeCharge STARRS Board of Advisors It is time for native black Americans...
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...
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...
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...
Trump Just Fired A Deadly Shot At DEI — And The Legacy Media Is Totally Ignoring It
By Natalie Sandoval | Daily Caller News Foundation Show of hands: who’d prefer his surgeon earn his degree by merit, not...
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...
Navy Scraps Biden-Era ‘Climate Action’ Plan, Returns Focus To Warfighting
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist The U.S. Navy officially scrapped a Biden-era “climate action” plan for the force on...
‘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...
Transgender West Point Instructor Sues the Commander-in-Chief
This Times-Union article tells the story of a female who joined the Army and was diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021...
DEI at Annapolis
By CDR Salamander, Substack In what was the last moment of reprieve for the agents of division inside the Annapolis...
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...
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...
Army suspends commander after Trump, Vance, Hegseth vanish from command board
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News The commander of Fort McCoy was relieved of duty after the U.S. Army base failed to install...
Army and Air Force libraries are ordered to review books for DEI material
(AP) Army and Air Force libraries have been told to go through their stacks to find books related to diversity, equity and...
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 –...
The Fight Against Race-Based Admissions at the US Naval Academy
This is a monumental, in-depth investigation into race-based admissions at America’s elite military academies—and the...
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...
Attorney blasts Merchant Marine midshipmen as ‘Christian nationalist insects’ for cheering Jesus painting
By Jon Brown | Christian Post An attorney from the nonprofit that pushed to relocate a historic Jesus painting at the U.S...
Cleaning traitors out of the military
By Mike McDaniel, USAF veteran It’s no secret that Barack Obama purged hundreds of officers from the military. These were...
Wrong, Colonel, the Concerns Are Yours!
By Kevin McCullough | Townhall If you grow up in a military family, like I did, you don’t just learn the rank...
Army Enlisted Academy Bars Students from Writing About Women and Minorities
In other words, students “must submit a paper free of DEI content.” Good. By Steve Beynon | Military.com The...