By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors If the U.S. Navy is to retain its status as the premier fleet in the...
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The Status of the Navy: Part II
Bringing Academies & War Colleges Back to Centerline
By Commander Salamander | His Substack For those who’ve watched for a long time, especially over the last decade, our...
The Status of the Navy: Part I
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors “A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty...
Infamous Navy Drag Queen/Recruitment Influencer Reenlists
As if he hasn’t caused enough problems for everyone. Navy Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, aka drag queen Harpy...
As an Esteemed Navy Commander is Subjected to Investigation, ‘You Come for All of Us’ Becomes the Rallying Cry for Former Service Members
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit On July 9, active-duty Navy Commander Robert A. Green, Jr., announced on X that he has...
U.S. Navy commander now investigated for exposing ‘unconstitutional and illegal actions by military leadership’ during COVID-shot mandates
By J.M. Phelps | WorldNet Daily One of the U.S. military’s most high-profile and respected whistleblowers, active...
Pentagon Withdraws Promotion for Admiral Who Allowed Drag Shows on USS Ronald Reagan
By Joshua Arnold | The Washington Stand The U.S. Department of Defense has withdrawn its nomination to promote Rear...
Pentagon Ditches Admiral Who Allowed Drag Queen Performances On Aircraft Carrier
By Mary Margaret Olohan | The Daily Wire The Defense Department is withdrawing the nomination of Rear Adm. Michael “Buzz”...
White House, Pentagon Won’t Say Why Admiral Who Allowed Drag Shows On Navy Ship Was Nominated For Promotion
By Jacqueline Annis-Levings | The Federalist President Trump recently recommended Rear Admiral Michael “Buzz” Donnelly, who...
A Tribute to CDR Phillip Keuhlen, USN (Retired)
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors Calvert Task Group Board of Directors It is with extreme sadness it...
Hegseth announces Navy oil tanker named after gay rights leader renamed after Medal of Honor recipient
By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a Navy oil tanker named after gay rights leader...
U.S. Navy Sails To 2025 Recruiting Target Three Months Ahead Of Schedule
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist With the wind in its sails, the U.S. Navy hit its recruiting goal for the 2025 fiscal...
US Navy JAG Officer Accused Of Making Violent Threat Against J6 And ICE Agents
By Ashley Brasfield | The Daily Caller News Foundation U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Officer Benjamin France is...
‘Warrior Spirit Being Restored’: Retired General Weighs In on Renaming USNS Harvey Milk
Zachary Gohl | Washington Stand Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a U.S. Navy vessel to be stripped of its name...
Navy Reportedly Considering Renaming Ship Honoring Alleged ‘Homosexual Predator’
By Wallace White | The Daily Caller News Foundation Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is reportedly weighing ordering the...
“Constructivism and Feminism” Course at Naval War College
By CDR Salamander | Substack Last week we looked at the Naval War College. We’ll call that Episode 1. Time for Episode 2...
The Fruits of Institutional Capture: “Women, Peace, and Security”
By CDR Salamander | Substack Institutional capture is very real. Regardless of what initial intentions are, if you create...
SEN. TIM SHEEHY: 100 Days Of Putting Warfighters First
By Senator Tim Sheehy Former Navy Seal, USNA grad When I met with Pete Hegseth in early December ahead of his confirmation...
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...
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...
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...
Objections to the COVID-19 Shot, Transgenderism, and Drag Queen Story Hour Got a Service Member Booted from the Navy
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Service members are facing many obstacles as they try to return to military service. Some...
Trump Administration Fires Female Vice Admiral Amid Widening Purge of Military Officers
See these before reading the article: BREAKING: Per report, Navy Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield refused to put up POTUS...
U.S. Navy Invites Former Sailors to Apply for Reentry under Executive Order 14184
(Dept of Navy) The United States Navy is inviting former Sailors who voluntarily left the service or allowed their service...
Navy Seal watched as military became inundated with DEI
Excerpt from podcast with Congressman Eli Lake, a Navy Seal veteran: “When I look at this whole situation as a former...
US NAVY IN EXTREMIS! Facing China’s Growing Maritime Threat with Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret.
America faces a maritime crisis that few citizens recognize but that threatens our national security at its core. In this...
Capt. Brent Sadler named Commandant of the U.S. Merchant Marine
By John Konrad | gCaptain In a significant and long-awaited move that could reshape the trajectory of American maritime...
Admiral Derek Trinque is Everything Wrong with the Woke Navy
By Victoria Manning | Restoration News President Trump has a new target: A Navy admiral who adores Anthony Fauci and...
Course Correction Required for Naval War College’s Women, Peace, and Security Program
By Rebecca Buis and Capt. Brent Sadler, USN ret, USNA ’94 | The Daily Signal At a February town hall, Secretary of...
Department of the Navy Announces New Policy on Sailors with Gender Dysphoria
(US Navy) The Department of the Navy announced policy changes for Sailors with a current diagnosis or history of gender...
Military Service JAGs Fired by Secretary Hegseth For a Reason
STARRS Board of Advisor member Col. Rob Maness, USAF ret, discussed the recent firings of JAGS with Commander Rob Green...
USNA ’96 Grad Capt. Hung Cao named Under Secretary of the Navy
More GREAT News! The Commander-in-Chief named Captain Hung Cao, USN ret, USNA ’96, to be the next Under Secretary of...
ALNAV Message: Department of Navy Implementation of Executive Order 14168 – Gender Ideology
If you’ve been wondering where the Navy orders are, this is the first one, dated 18 February 2025: CLASSIFICATION:...
America’s Future Depends on Rebuilding the Navy
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors As reported by Defense One on 14 February 2025, “The Chinese...
We all know who is in the diversity commissariat
By CDR Salamander Let’s speak candidly: our Navy needs friends. We don’t need to generate enemies nor have those in the...
Calvert Task Group Presents the Audiobook Edition of Popular Title, ‘Don’t Give Up the Ship’
(Press Release) Now available at Audible.com, “Don’t Give Up the Ship!” encourages the change the American...
5 Military Officials Whose Damaging Left-Wing Antics Must Be Accounted For
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist In a major step toward accountability at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth...
Young man turns down acceptance to West Point from Senator: “Coach, I’m not getting involved with that mess.”
Senator Tommy Tuberville discusses the woke problem in the military service academies with Pete Hegseth during...
Urgent Defense Recommendations for the Trump Administration
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors President-elect Trump has made recent statements in favor of the...
US Navy Admiral James R. Hogg, 1934-2025
STARRS was sadden to learn that one of our supporters, four-star Admiral James R. Hogg, USNA ’56 passed away on 2...
DEI helps no one
Letter to the Editor in the Washington Times: Reading “Is DEI dangerous? Study finds diversity training materials stoke...
Feds Look To Hire Up To 1,200 New DEI Bureaucrats Before Trump Takes Office
Their research found many of the jobs were in DOD, Air Force, Navy, etc By Luke Rosiak | The Daily Wire The federal...
The Military Is Not Inclusive, It Is Exclusive
By Capt. Hung Cao, USN ret, USNA ’96 It is estimated that fewer than 23% of Americans between 17 and 22 are qualified...
Conservative watchdog compiles list of ‘woke ideologues’ in military for Pete Hegseth to purge
By Ryan King | New York Post A conservative watchdog group has compiled a list of “woke ideologues” for Department of...
‘Celebrating Diversity’: Biden’s Army, Navy Nominees Pushed DEI Ideology While In Uniform
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist Army and Navy officials recently promoted by President Joe Biden pushed neo-Marxist...
Don’t Give Up The Ship … Coronadan Contributes Essay To New Book
By Linda L. Austin | Coronado Eagle & Journal The Calvert Task Group website leads with a picture of the group’s book...
Pete Hegseth’s War on the Woke: Can He Fix America’s Broken Military?
By Brandon Webb, former Navy Seal | SOFREP It used to be that the military was the last bastion of meritocracy in America...
Now-Retired Navy Whistleblower is Ready to Come Clean About the COVID Shot, and He’s Demanding Accountability
By J.M. Phelps | Gateway Pundit Two years ago, active-duty Navy Medical Service Corps officer Lt. Ted Macie became a...
How Woke Politics Are Endangering Our Military and Our Nation
“A review of one of the most important books of the last decade.” —Jason Hill, Professor, author of, “What...