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Congressman Grothman’s Statement on DEI in the Military
A STARRS delegation met with the Congressman in early February 2024. (Press Release) Congressman Glenn Grothman (R-WI)...
Would You Recommend Military Service as a Career?
Fill out this form on Military.com article where a reporter is asking for input on Would you recommend military service as a...
DACOWITS Pentagon Panel Says Women Should Be Integrated into Marine Platoons as Part of Recruit Training
The Marine Corps should fully integrate women into platoons and institute mixed-gender drill instructor teams at its recruit...
Duty, Honor, Nothing
By Citizen Soldier My father remembers a trip with my grandfather to the U.S. Military Academy in the early 1960s to watch a...
A Navy in Decline
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, USN ret STARRS Board of Advisors In 1890, Alfred Thayer Mahan, a renowned naval strategist, published...
Duty, Honor, Country
By Lt. Col. Allen West, USA ret “Duty, Honor, Country…mere words to some” Duty – A moral or legal...
Congressman questions West Point dropping ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement
(New York Post) The chairman of the House Republican “anti-woke caucus” fired off a letter Monday to US Military Academy...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’: Political Correctness At West Point Leaves Our Military Distracted From Its True Mission
By Brian Schaeffer, former Naval aviator If you’re a veteran like me, you will find it increasingly more difficult to watch...
The Feminization of the Army
By Cincinnatus I read The Feminization of America a few weeks ago, and that theme has been bouncing around my cranial cavity...
USMA Grads talk about West Point mission change
Jeanne Ives, USMA ’87 interviews MacArthur Society President Col (ret) Bill Prince, USMA ’70 on her show, The...
What does Gen. MacArthur have to say about those who would scrap ‘Duty, Honor, Country’?
By Capt. James Poplar, USN ret By now I suspect many of you have heard that Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s call to the Corps of...
‘Duty, Honor, Country’ versus ‘Army Values’
By Tony Lentini, USMA ’71 West Point’s superintendent created a firestorm among the American public with his announcement...
West Point Leadership Turns Its Back on ‘Duty, Honor, Country’
by Francis P. Sempa | American Spectator The headline in the Washington Times reads: “West Point deletes ‘duty, honor...
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Woke supporters try to defend USAF Colonel in promotion limbo
A real puff piece was written in Military.com about Senator Schmitt’s hold on promotion of USAF Col. Ben Jonsson...
War Stories: Maj Gen Joe Arbuckle – Vietnam
Armed Forces Press host L Todd Wood (USAFA grad) speaks to STARRS Vice Chairman Major General Joe Arbuckle (USA, Ret) on his...
Gen & Col: America is Broken–It’s Time to Stand Up & Fight
Two videos from an Army General and a Colonel about the situation America is in. (Interview starts at the 11 minute mark)...
Expect the Evil
By Lt Col Darrin Gaub, US Army ret Co-Founder of Restore Liberty “Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and...
Live Not By Lies
Words of wisdom for today as many ask “what can be done” in the face of a Marxist ideological capture of the...
More transgender madness in the military
Military watchdog journalist Sam Shoemate posted on his X account (@samosaur) a statement from a female service member who...
VA Secretary Intervenes After Top Officer Orders Iconic World War II Kiss Photo Removed for Being ‘Non-Consensual’
A recent memo from the Department of Veterans Affairs to its regional offices directed all copies of the iconic World War II...
Extremism on Duty
By Lt. Col. Tommy Waller, USMC Ret. | The American Mind Video footage of a U.S. Air Force Airman engulfed in flames on video...
Air Force Academy Highlights Transgender Officer At Leadership Summit
By Spencer Lindquist | Daily Wire The United States Air Force Academy showcased a transgender-identifying activist and...
When will the Pentagon start taking left-wing extremism seriously?
By John Schindler, former Navy Officer and Naval War College professor Served as an intelligence analyst at NSA Many were...
More Money for a Woke Pentagon?
From the Washington Stand: . . . . In this race to pass appropriations bills (one of which is Defense), Republicans have...
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency DEI training features the ‘gender unicorn’ and ‘transgender terminology’
How embarrassing for grown adults working in counterintelligence and security to have to sit through a stupid briefing like...
Defense Secretary Refuses to Restore 8,600 Service Members He Vax-Mandated Out of Military
Congressman Matt Gaetz put the SECDEF on the line during a recent hearing where the SECDEF had to explain his unauthorized...
Meeting of the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors
Calling all our Navy readers to attend the morning meeting of the Naval Academy Board of Visitors on March 19, 2024 from 9...
STARRS VIDEO: Out of Many, ONE
We’re DONE with all of the affinity/culture club groups at the service academies which separate, divide and have an...
Military Service Academy Affinity/Culture Clubs
No, not THAT Culture Club, but close. (Only people from the 1980s will get this) A look at identity-based clubs at the...
The Kinder, Gentler Military
There has been 30 years of sustained bludgeoning of the warrior culture that used to be the thing that attracted young men...
NCLS speaker tells cadets they need to be prepared to do what’s “uncomfortable and inconvenient” in the name of justice
Rather awkward press release from USAFA in light of what an anarchist Airman did this week in DC “in the name of...
Anti-Woke Caucus Targets DEI Committee At DOD Primary Schools
by Henry Rogers | The Daily Caller News Foundation Republican Indiana Rep. Jim Banks, who serves as Chairman of the Anti...
DOD’s Equity Action Plan 2023 Update
DoD recently released a report called “Equity Action Plan 2023 Update” (pdf). Written like something out of the...
Xi Van Fleet, a Sage for Turning Around a Troubled America
By Scott Powell | Townhall Outsiders often have more and better insights on societies and countries than native people...
US Army cutting force by 24K amid recruiting shortfalls
As the U.S. Army struggles with recruitment, the service is cutting its force by about 24,000 in a restructuring that it...
Military Recruitment Is Down. Good.
By Christopher Skeet, former US Marine | PJ Media I come from a family with generations of military tradition. Our first...
The more diversity officers and DEI training, race relations get worse
From former Army Captain Kendall Qualls, President of TakeCharge and STARRS Board of Advisors: Gallup has been tracking race...
Open letter exposes corruption, cheating and failing standards at West Point
This powerful letter was written in October 2017 by retired US Army LTC Robert M. Heffington (USMA 1997). Heffington was an...
DOD Contractor MITRE paid Billions by Pentagon set to host CRT author, hold ‘White Fragility’ Book Club
By Spencer Lindquist | The Daily Wire A federal contractor that’s received over five billion taxpayer dollars since...
Liberals Against DEI: Who Knew?
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy, ret Conservatives understand DEI as the practice of critical race theory (CRT). CRT derives...
Radicalism of US Airman who set himself on fire in uniform
All the indicators show that Aaron Bushnell became a radicalized far-left socialist/anarchist who hated the military while...
America’s military decline is deliberate
By Richard Kline, USMA 1967 Served in the US Air Force, Senior Executive Service in the govt Our military recruiting...
British Military’s 111 diversity champions ‘undermine combat effectiveness’
Can’t help but be amazed by UK’s Ministry of Defense seeking “champions” for service members with...
Thoughts on NCLS for Superintendent
Letter from Col. Ron Scott, PhD, USAF ret, USAFA ’73 STARRS President and CEO To the USAFA Superintendent Dear General...
Review: Letter to the American Church documentary
By Lt Col Eric Vogel, USAF ret USAFA ’73 The documentary movie Letter to the American Church is magnificent. Based on...
True Nature of DEI Agenda Revealed to the World: No White Males Allowed
Those who push the CRT/DEI agenda in the military will often wax on about the need to treat others with “dignity and...
Toxic Bosses Like United Airlines’ Vaccine-Pushing CEO Must Be Held Accountable
More on ’89 USAFA grad with a sterling woke pedigree: By Stella Morabito | The Federalist Every American should be...
Service Members Speak Out Against DEI Training in the Military
By JM Phelps | The Epoch Times Over 200 individuals currently serving in the U.S. military voluntarily participated in an...
The Unconscious-Bias House of Cards
Here’s evidence that “unconscious bias” training in DoD is based on pseudoscientific theory to advance a...
VA Psychologist Reassigned after Publicly Opposing Men in Female Vets’ Medical Spaces
Note this from the article: “A psychologist recently hired in Waldrep’s department said her favorite pastime was...
USAFA Cadets Unveil Class of 2024 Painting
A beautiful painting of Air Force fighter jets flying over the Air Force Academy was recently unveiled for the Class of 2024...
Project 2025 Prepares People & Policies to Undo the Damage by the Left
STARRS, MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, Calvert Task Group, and Center for Military Readiness are among 100...
NATO has embraced the woke DEI cult with “Cognitive Warfare”
In the cognitive warfare concept, NATO has embraced and refashioned the leftist ideology of the woke DIE cult, both based...
Open Letters
Air Force / Air Force Academy
Lt Gen Bishop Resigns from Falcon Foundation
On Oct 20, 2021, the President and CEO of STARRS, Lt Gen Rod Bishop, USAFA’74, resigned from his position as a governing...
Senator Blocks Air Force Colonel’s Military Promotion Over ‘Divisive DEI Policies’
“We are at an endemic point and if we do not do something to turn the tide soon, I feel the military could be lost forever...
Army / West Point
Future of all-volunteer Army in peril as Gen Z shuns military service
The U.S. Army is in a minor panic. The biggest branch of the U.S. military missed its recruitment goals by 15,000 soldiers...
West Point cadets taught critical race theory, including addressing ‘whiteness,’ docs show
New documents exclusively obtained by Fox News Digital reveal that the U.S. Army is teaching West Point cadets critical race...
Navy / Naval Academy
The Military Academies Have Turned Into Woke Wastelands
By Francis Sempa | American Spectator In 1962, General Douglas MacArthur said to the Corps of Cadets at the US Military...
Service Academy Admissions Examining Eliminating Standardized Test Scores
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA 1972 I have confirmed that USMA, USNA and USAFA are studying how to revise their admissions...