Hello STARRS,

What a crazy week! This issue of our weekly newsletter is all about the SECDEF's Defense Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (DACODAI) public meeting this past Thursday and Friday that we monitor as a watchdog.

Click on the headlines to read the articles on our website.

Couldn't get on or got kicked off of the DACODAI Public Meeting? Watch it here:

The continuing saga of how they quickly reached their max 100 person capacity thereby denying people from logging on to the Zoom meeting, as well as people--including flag officers--getting unceremoniously kicked off the Zoom. Watch videos of every briefing and/or read transcripts. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the relentless DEI/race obsession in the Pentagon, including racial disparities and grievances. Plus bonus, the CIA's Chief DEI Commissar schools the DOD on how the Agency was able to be completely infected with the woke mind virus.

Watch DEI Briefings from DACODAI Meeting

Testimonies

Watch or read testimonies from members of the new Military Readiness and Merit Coalition who made travel arrangements from all over the country to attend the meeting in person in Arlington, VA, but were denied.

Listen to their messages to DACODAI:

Testimony by Lt Col Matthew Lohmeier

Testimony – Brig General Chris “Mookie” Walker

Testimony – Lt General Rod Bishop

"I think it is a harbinger of the military’s failure, it’s a harbinger of societal failure when you’re censoring one point of view and unwilling to hear it and are trying to shut it down." --Matt Lohmeier

Testimony – Kendall Qualls

Testimony – Col Brandi King

Testimony – Scott McQuarrie

Testimony – Lt Col Tommy Waller

Background:

URGENT: DOD canceled our attendance at their DEI public meeting

Open Letter to General Lyles: Here are Some Facts on the Ground

Getting the Word Out:

Entire Webinar: America’s Military Requires Merit-based Readiness, Not Marxist D.E.I.

Watch the entire webinar featuring the above testimonies plus more as they answer questions and provide comments at the end.

America’s Department of Defense: We Don’t Like Diversity of Thought, Only Skin Color

STARRS Vice Chairman Maj. General Joe Arbuckle (USA ret) and STARRS President Col Ron Scott (USAF ret) were on Col. Rob Maness (USAF ret) show talking about the DACODAI meeting and the new coalition of groups standing up against the DEI agenda in the military.

Read all the powerful statements given to DACODAI Committee Members:

Statement to DACODAI – STARRS

Statement to DACODAI – Rear Admiral William Rodriguez

Statement to DACODAI – Lt Col Allen West

Statement to DACODAI – Maj General Joe Arbuckle

Statement to DACODAI – Col. Brandi King

Statement to DACODAI – Scott McQuarrie

Statement to DACODAI – Larry Purdy

Statement to DACODAI – Lt Col Marc Van Ells

Statement to DACODAI – Col. Daniel Bohlin

Statement to DACODAI – Capt Tom Burbage/Calvert Task Group

Statement to DACODAI – Cynthia Kwitchoff

Statement to DACODAI – Bob Neumann

Statement to DACODAI – Lt Col Richard Pendleton

Statement to DACODAI – Garry McAvoy

Statement to DACODAI – Colonel Tim Hughes

Statement to DACODAI – CDR James Rampey

Statement to DACODAI – Bruce Byron

Statement to DACODAI – Col James Kelly

Statement to DACODAI – Major Michael Reich

Statement to DACODAI – Lt Colonel Stephen Krikorian

Statement to DACODAI – John Thomas

Statement to DACODAI – Carol Greenwald

Statement to DACODAI – Greg Salsbury

Statement to DACODAI – Greg Thompson

Statements to DACODAI – Short additional

And in other news:

Marxist CRT at the US Naval Academy

Actual slide from a recent conference there

Going Color-Blind Could Help Americans See What Truly Unites Them

Why DEI Rejects Assimilation

By MG Joe Arbuckle, US Army ret

STARRS Vice Chairman

Pentagon Says It Can’t Calculate Diversity Training Costs Because Congress Defunded DEI Offices

NEW BOOK: Unfit to Fight: How Woke Policies Are Destroying Our Military

By former Pentagon official Amber Smith

“Amber speaks to one of the most pressing issues of our time: a military in decline. What was once the fiercest fighting force in the world has been reduced by our leaders to drag queen videos, pronouns, and wokeness. The only way to solve a problem is to get to the root cause and expose the rot from within." - Lisa Boothe

What Military People Are Saying

From a recent discussion with a military officer:

• I am forced to put on a mask at work every day. The mask is not a physical one like we had to do with COVID but a cultural one. My faith, my values, and my very identity, even though founded upon the essence of our nation and the military, are not respected.

• In war I cannot trust my senior leadership to lead the fight as a warrior.

• In good conscience I cannot recommend the Air Force or the military to young men and women because of the poor leadership that has proven to recklessly abandon the principles of war, costing the needless loss of lives.

• The culture within the Air Force has degraded so far that it is not possible to turn it around from within. IF the Air Force in particular, and the military at large, are to be salvaged, the changes will have to be from outside.

The below graphic sent a DACODAI member over the edge, so we're posting it again:

E Pluribus Unum – Unity is America’s Strength

Wake Up, Stand Up, Speak Up and Never Give Up!

US military veterans and citizens--all volunteers--concerned about the divisive racist and radical CRT/DEI ideology infiltrating the military and academies, and seek to stand up together and do something about it in order to keep our country safe.

Volunteer to Help

WHAT STARRS DOES:

We STAND against the CRT/DEI/Woke agenda in the military & service academies
We educate on the dangers of this racist and radical ideology in the military
We monitor and call out the CRT/DEI/Woke agenda in the DoD through our website & social media
We seek the truth of what is happening in the military through FOIAs
We hold accountable the Academies and Services when they push this radical agenda
We speak Truth to Power . . . Hard Truths
We write articles and policy papers alerting people to this harmful agenda
We work with Congress and Panels to provide knowledge and ideas to combat the problem
We help like-minded organizations and media to get out the truth
We provide a network and listening ear to cadets, service members, veterans and families who are sick of this ideology being forced on them and worried about the future of our country. If you feel this way too, know that you are not alone!

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