No, not THAT Culture Club, but close. (Only people from the 1980s will get this) A look at identity-based clubs at the...
No more dividing identities: We Are One
Military Service Academy Affinity/Culture Clubs
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...
Latest News on the CRT/DEI/Woke Agenda in the Military
Everything is Wonderful at West Point
By pyrene, a USMA grad On 11 March 2024, the Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY sent a...
What exactly are “Army Values?”
By Capt. Gene Thomas Gomulka, US Navy ret In 1992, while serving as the Deputy Chaplain of the U.S. Marine Corps, I was...
USAFA Cadet: “I came here to be mentally and physically challenged, not be constantly told “I’m the victim”
Recent post on Service Academy Forum by a USAFA Cadet: “Disclaimer: This might not represent the views of the Cadet...
VMI Board of Visitors struggles with politics and free speech
The importance of attending Board of Visitors meetings: By Cody Bartmann and The Cadet staff | The VMI Cadet The Cadet...
Army Seeking Retirees To Come Back To Work Amid Manpower Crisis
Desperately calling up retirees again. If you go back in, stand up against DEI, what do you have to lose? You already had...
‘Unfit to Fight’: DEI Called Detrimental to Armed Forces, but ‘Prevalent Throughout Military Culture’
By Noah Slater | The Daily Signal Policies pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion are pervasive throughout the U.S...
The Institution or the Constitution
By Commander Robert A. Green Jr., US Navy and Vice Admiral W. Dean Lee, US Coast Guard, ret Unraveling the COVID-19 Mandates...
Navy Leadership Failures
By Capt. Brent Ramsey, US Navy ret STARRS Board of Advisors In recent years, there have been incidents, accidents, and...
Will DEI End America—or America end DEI?
By Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness At the nexus of most of America’s current crises, the...
I Will Not Fight for DEI
By J.B. Shurk | American Thinker Would you be willing to fight and die for multiculturalism? Would you put your life on...
Additional Material Worth Sharing with the DACODAI Committee
By Lt General Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA ’74 STARRS Chairman of the Board General Lyles, once again there has been a...
USMA Supe briefs Class Leaders re Mission Statement Change – “Build[ing]” Diversity Creeps into the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness & Merit USMA’s Supe briefed class leaders on 3/19...
To combat bullying and extremism, Air Force Academy turns to social media sleuthing
By Will Carless | USA Today After years of internal and external alarms that the military isn’t doing enough to address...
Leadership Standards and Accountability: The United States Naval Academy
This letter by a 1970 Naval Academy graduate, who was in the nuclear power industry, was written in November 2021 and...
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Answers to Questions re Service Academy Admissions and a Change to the Mission Statement
By Scott McQuarrie, USMA ’72 President, Veterans for Fairness and Merit A USNA grad emailed some perceptive questions...
USAFA Cadet at Genderbread Person Training: “Why aren’t we learning about China instead?”
STARRS heard there was a mandatory lecture at the US Air Force Academy that all cadets had to attend, given by two PHD...
Why the DoD Should Drop DEI and Affirm Meritocracy in the Military
By Elaine Donnelly President, Center for Military Readiness STARRS Board of Advisors For more than 30 years, mostly civilian...
‘Dear Boss’ Letter Decries Air Force’s Lack of True Leadership
A letter from 2017. Probably a good thing he got out before these same toxic leaders pushed an untested vax on their people...
West Point removing the words Duty Honor Country from mission statement
By John T. Reed, USMA ’68 Seriously? The words “Duty Honor Country” were on the cover of Time once. Why? it was the...
Why Did West Point Change Its Mission? (Part 2)
By pyrene, USMA Grad Part 1 of why did West Point change its mission asked about the specific choices of words. This Part 2...
Why Did West Point Change Its Mission? (Part 1)
By pyrene, USMA grad The Superintendent of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY sent a letter out to all...
West Point Recruiting Pitch Is Big On Career But Doesn’t Mention The Army
True, we are a more “selfish” society, so appeals to values like selfless service may not resonate with as many as in former...
The DEI Commissariat
By CDR Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack If you think the DEI problem has gone out of control in our educational...
Defense Spending Bill Cuts Diversity Programs, But Leaves Out Provisions Blocking Trans Procedures, Abortion Funding
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller The defense spending bill unveiled in the House early Thursday cuts millions in...
Spirit of VMI Chairman’s Update
By Matt Daniel, VMI ‘85 | The Spirit of VMI The Spirit of VMI was founded in the winter of 2021; it has been 3 years of...
VMI Eschews Standards of Excellence, Devalues Diploma
By Joseph D. Elie, VMI ’88 | The Spirit of VMI As an alumnus living in Florida, I have a dearth of information about...
Latest wave of wokeness to hit West Point reveals one simple solution
Cut to the chase re Doug MacKinnon’s unusual solution: instead of just complaining about wokeness in the service...
Engineering Failures, Toxic Leadership Prevented US Ship From Deploying, Investigations Show
By Micaela Burrow | The Daily Caller News Foundation Command investigations into the USS Boxer amphibious assault ship...
Many top colleges, including service academies, ‘training a cadre of political commissars’ through DEI certificate programs
Many American colleges and universities are offering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) certificates that are not only a...
House Conservatives Target Critical Race Theory in Govt in Budget Proposal
The largest bloc of conservatives in the House is targeting critical race theory (CRT) throughout the federal government in...
West Point Gives in to Creeping Liberalism
By Mackubin Owens, retired Marine officer; taught at the US Naval War College for 35 years In May of 1962, General Douglas...
Senator Probes West Point’s Decision To Drop ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ From Mission Statement
(Press Release) U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) sent a letter to United States Military Academy superintendent, Lt...
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...
The New Praetorian Guard?
On the Right Angle podcast with Bill Whittle, Steve Green and Scott Uton, they discuss the news of the US Military’s woke...
What Needs to be Restored, Reformed and Improved at West Point
From America Free News Network: Over the past several days, there has been a royal donnybrook spawned by the decision of the...
Media Attack Sen. Eric Schmitt For Fighting DEI Racism In The Military
By Shawn Fleetwood | The Federalist America’s regime-approved media are attacking Missouri GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt for...
West Point Removes ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from Its Mission Statement
By Kristina Wong | Breitbart News West Point Superintendent Army Lt. Gen. Steve Gilland on Monday announced a new mission...
West Point deletes ‘duty, honor, country’ from mission statement
By Bill Gertz and Mike Glenn | Washington Times The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has removed the words “Duty...
We Must Have Vaccine Damage Accountability for Our Servicemembers
By Congressman Matt Gaetz When rogue agencies conspire with private institutions to form an Orwellian Ministry of...
Waste of the Day: U.S. Navy Spent $4.3 Million To Play Fortnite, Other Games
By Adam Andrzejewski | RealClearInvestigations The U.S. Navy spent $4.3 million last year on recruitment efforts using...
West Point military academy drops ‘Duty, Honor, Country’ from mission statement
We’re just here for the comments, 2.5K so far. Fox News: The U.S. Military Academy at West Point has made the decision...
West Point Deletes “Duty Honor Country” from its Mission Statement
By John A. Lucas, USMA ’69 Army Ranger and Special Forces Green Beret; served with the 1st Calvary Division in Vietnam First...
Open Letters
Air Force / Air Force Academy
How DEI is destroying trust and unity within the ranks
By Lauren Evans U.S. Air Force Academy cadet [This author’s name has been changed to a pseudonym to protect the...
Military Service Academies Over the Years
Videos looking back at the US military service academies over the years. What are your memories? The Making Of A West...
Army / West Point
Getting back to ‘mission first’
By Col. William Connor, USA ret The Citadel, ’90 Member, Citadel Board of Visitors With military recruitment and...
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks’ Roundtable Meeting With West Point Cadets on Climate & Resilience
(DOD Press Release) Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks met via Zoom today with cadets and a newly-commissioned...
Navy / Naval Academy
Vaccine litigation lingers after lifting of military mandate
Federal appeals court judges closely questioned a Biden administration attorney Monday on the consequences military...
Where the DEI/CRT Indoctrination Came From, Part III
By Forrest L. Marion, Ph.D. Retired U.S. Air Force officer and military historian For many months, mainland China’s...