Statement to DACODAI by former US Navy Lt. Bruce Byron Subject: DEI in the military After fifty years in public agencies and...
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Statement to DACODAI – Col James Kelly
Statement to DACODAI by Colonel James Kelly, USAF ret Sirs, I am concerned with our current and future threats that we are...
Statement to DACODAI – Major Michael Reich
Statement to DACODAI by Major Michael Reich, USAF ret Dear members of the Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and...
Statement to DACODAI – Lt Colonel Stephen Krikorian
Statement to DACODAI by Lt Colonel Stephen H. Krikorian, USAF ret, USAFA ’76 Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity...
Statement to DACODAI – John Thomas
Statement to DACODAI by former Captain John Thomas, US Army, USMA’ 78 Sirs: I graduated from West Point in 1978 and...
Statement to DACODADI – Carol Greenwald
Statement to DACODAI by Carol Greenwald, PhD To: General Lester L. Lyles (USAF, Ret.), April 21, 2024 Chairman Defense...
Statement to DACODAI – Greg Salsbury
Statement to DACODAI by Greg Salsbury, PhD April 22, 2024 To: General Lester L. Lyles (USAF, Ret.) Chairman Defense Advisory...
Statement to DACODAI – Greg Thompson
Statement to DACODAI by Greg Thompson DEL must DIE I have been taught, and always believed that “THE RIGHT PERSON FOR...
Statements to DACODAI – Additional
Additional shorter statements to DACODAI: I would like to express my objection to CRT/DEI in our U.S. Military. I am a U.S...
America’s Department of Defense: We Don’t Like Diversity of Thought, Only Skin Color
STARRS leaders had a great interview today on the Rob Maness Show about the DACODAI meeting. Watch: In this episode of...
Webinar: America’s Military Requires Merit-based Readiness, Not Marxist D.E.I.
Watch the testimonies of some of the members of the Military Readiness and Merit Coalition who had planned to attend the May...
Pentagon Says It Can’t Calculate Diversity Training Costs Because Congress Defunded DEI Offices
By Michaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Pentagon told Congress it could not provide a required...
NEW BOOK: Unfit to Fight: How Woke Policies Are Destroying Our Military
Amber Smith, former Defense Department official and Army OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helicopter combat veteran, is author of a new...
Open Letter to General Lyles: Here are Some Facts on the Ground
By Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Biography As many of you know, DACODAI...
URGENT: DOD canceled our attendance at their DEI public meeting
On Monday STARRS was informed by the Executive Director of the Secretary of Defense’s DEI advisory committee that...
Marxist CRT at the US Naval Academy
On 18 & 19 April 2024, the U.S. Naval Academy Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership held the 23rd annual McCain...
Congressman Introduces DEI Dead on Arrival Act
(Press Release) As first reported by Fox News, Congressman Alford introduced the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) Dead on...
Rescuing Our Military Teams From DEI Destruction
In this episode of “Rob Maness Live,” the discussion centers on critical issues affecting the military, notably...
Another new report says DEI doesn’t improve performance
By Madalaine Elhabbal | CatholicVote A new scientific study demonstrates that despite widespread claims, diversity does not...
“They Don’t Do He/Him” – China, Russia & Iran Mock U.S. Military’s Woke Culture
Patrick Bet-David and Vincent Oshana are joined by former Navy SEAL Andy Stumpf as they discuss how the military’s...
Former SECDEF: DEI Divides Us
Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, USMA ’86, was recently asked about the woke military on Bill Maher’s...
Your Local Diversity Bullies/Commissars/Bigots
By Commander Salamander, USN ret | CDR Salamander Substack One of the fun things about our Diversity Thursday visits over...
Disparate Impact Thinking Is Destroying Our Civilization
A recent article, Black junior enlisted likelier to face punishment than white airmen, talked about a new RAND report about...
The Warrior Caste
By Will Thibeau, Army Veteran Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth is concerned about the risk of “developing a warrior...
USAFA Grad: Disillusioned with the Direction of the Academy
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board Recent email sent to General Bishop:...
Nomination of Air Force Officer at Center of GOP’s Fight Against ‘Woke’ Military Extended to 2025
DEI Colonel Update: An Air Force officer whose promotion to brigadier general has been stalled by a Republican senator...
Lawmakers decry U.S. military’s drift to DEI culture
By Casey Harper | The Center Square The U.S. military’s ongoing embrace of the far-left culture war has drawn increased...
Air Force Slapped With Lawsuit After Claiming It Has No Records On Officer Diversity Quotas
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation A watchdog group filed a lawsuit against the Air Force on Wednesday...
Military Could Hit Troops With Courts-Martial For Refusing To Use Preferred Pronouns, Experts Say
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The military could seek to formally punish service members for...
Stop talking past one another on the topic of diversity and inclusion
By Lt. General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board From part of an email sent out by General...
Our Service Academies Must Discard Race-Based Admissions
By Lawrence Purdy, USNA ’68 Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it… [T]he Equal Protection Clause …...
West Point Grad: Diversity chief who espoused anti-American ‘Marxist dogma’ will ‘destroy the State Department’
USMA 1986 grad Mike Pompeo (#1 in his class) on the State Department–which represents America to the...
USAA Shuts Down Bank Account of Trump Lawyer
USAA increasingly getting even more politically partisan and left-wing. See our articles on USAA here. Upset about USAA...
Senator: Service Members are Disgruntled About DEI
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) questioned Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth and Chief of Staff...
Senator to SECAF: Fire all DEI positions in the Air Force, every single one!
At a recent hearing, Senator Schmitt told the Secretary of the Air Force DIE is divisive and cultural Marxism, and that to...
CMR Statement to DoD: Reassess and Revoke Harmful DEI Policies
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness The Center for Military Readiness (CMR) has submitted a formal...
Congressman: “Even as Americans have pushed back, the DOD continues its focus on DEI”
“The backlash is real.” (Press Release) U.S. Representative Jim Banks (R-IN), Chairman of the Military Personnel...
SecArmy Can’t Explain Why Race Should Be A Factor In Recruiting
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Secretary of the Army Christine Wormuth could not explain in a hearing...
Mandatory DEI Statements Are Ideological Pledges of Allegiance. Time to Abandon Them.
Harvard Professor: “By overreaching, by resorting to compulsion, by forcing people to toe a political line, by...
Pentagon’s Austin pressed on whether DEI hiring freeze has harmed national security
By Cami Mondeaux | Washington Examiner A congressman is pressing the Biden administration to explain how the creation of...
Trans military chaplain suspended over alleged sexual groping comment
Weirdness from up north in the Canadian military: A military chaplain man who thinks he’s a woman wanted to group...
Ridding America of CRT/DEI: Target the Budget
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt The battle to rid America of...
West Point ’64 grad says ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ saved him and his soldiers in Vietnam
By Dan Chalk | Midland Daily News In the view of retired U.S. Army Captain Michael Miller of Midland, the late Gen...
Biden Is Building A Military Based On DEI And Wokeness — We Need Merit And Preparedness
By Will Thibeau, Army veteran | The Daily Caller News Foundation The military is rightly understood as an apolitical...
Veterans Speak Out Against Military’s DEI Advisory Group
By J.M. Phelps | Epoch Times Veteran advocates are speaking out against a group of civilian leaders that provides the...
Where is the Warrior Ethos?
By Col. Michael J. Martini, USAF In the earlier part of my 23-year Air Force journey there was an emphasis on the Warrior...
DACODAI Public Meeting: 2-3 May 2024
The SECDEF’s senior DEI advisory committee (DACODAI) will be holding a public meeting at the beginning of May in...
Pentagon Won’t Respond To New Research Casting Doubt On Studies Supporting Military’s DEI Push
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation The Pentagon failed to respond to questions about a peer-reviewed...
Gender and Resilience Wargame hosted at NATO HQ
What?? At first this looked like a headline from the Babylon Bee, but no, it’s actually from NATO, yikes. Oh the days...
Short Takes, Part 1
News and articles too short for a post or a bit out of our military lane: In a DOD news article interview with the Director...