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A Call To Action
Thank you for expressing interest in STARRS. We encourage you to take an active role in our mission, to include educating your elected representatives at the local, state and national levels, and expressing your concerns. We also encourage you to educate your fellow citizens by speaking at gatherings, writing editorials for local papers, talking to school boards and encouraging others to join you and STARRS.
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Judicial Watch Supports STARRS in Suing DOD for Overdue USAFA Records | |
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Judicial Watch is suing the Department of Defense (DOD) on behalf of STARRS in an effort to obtain records that were requested via the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) almost two years ago.
“It has been over 700 days since the STARRS FOIA request was made,” said STARRS President, Dr. (AF Colonel, retired) Ron Scott. The official request is for USAFA records alleging racial discrimination.
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Volunteers Needed!
STARRS is a predominantly volunteer non-profit organization dedicated to serving and standing up for patriotic Americans. To be as professional, efficient and effective as possible, we are always in need of new volunteers. Everyone is welcome to offer assistance and we are looking for skilled patriots to fill many roles.
We currently have two critical needs:
1. Digital Media and Information Technology Specialist to include website management, social media and other IT related tasks
2. Operations Research, to research issues and analyze available information
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Boots on the Ground Perspectives
on Woke Distractions to the Mission
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A USMA Parent: “West Point just told my son in an official proceeding he is too religious to serve and has to be discharged. ...The gaslighting is truly something to behold.”
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SITREP: US Coast Guard War on the Unvaccinated | |
Fight Against Medical Tyranny - USCGA Cadet Sophia Galdamez | |
American Conversations host Christine Dolan speaks with former US Coast Guard Academy cadet Sophia Galdamez, who was recently discharged after her request for religious exemption to the COVID vaccine mandate was refused. She was discharged along with six other cadets.
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Retired VADM Speaks Out In Support of Unvaccinated Coasties | |
‘Heroic Work’: Biden Congratulates Coast Guard Hero He’s Trying to Fire | |
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President Biden lauded U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Survival Technician Second Class Zach Loesch as a hero for saving lives as Hurricane Ian was ravaging the Florida peninsula. Loesch kicked through a wall to rescue a 94-year-old disabled woman and her husband, hoisting them — and her wheelchair — into a helicopter amid high winds.
However, Loesch is about to be kicked out of the Coast Guard on President Biden’s orders for refusing the COVID vaccine. He requested a religious exemption according to established procedures, but his request was denied. He appealed the denial, but that too was denied. Now, Loesch expects to be terminated within 30-60 days.
“It just sucks that he thanked me, yet the vaccine mandate is what’s kicking me out. I just love my job. And I’m really good at it. It sucks. I feel like this is the job that I was born to do.”
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USAFA Prep School Instructor Fired Due to COVID Vaccine Mandates
L. Todd Wood's CD Media Interview with Dr. Sandy Miarecki
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Dr. Sandy Miarecki was an Air Force test pilot, instructor and flight safety officer until her retirement from active duty after 20 years. Her health at retirement was poor due to a vaccine injury incurred during the Gulf War. She was fired from her civilian physics instructor position at the US Air Force Academy Prep School for refusing to take the COVID vaccine, and for helping cadet candidates and cadets apply for religious exceptions based on published AF and USAFA procedures. | |
Air Force Football Placed On Two-Year Probation for Recruiting Violations During COVID-19 Dead Periods | |
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What is Wrong with the
Military’s Vaccine Mandates?
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Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade challenges John Kirby on military's vaccine mandate: "Is it 'worth losing 20,000' service members?"
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DoD, Judicial and Congressional Activities | |
ICAN Wins Lawsuit – Forces CDC To Turn Over V-Safe COVID Vaccine Injury Data: 25% Had Serious Reactions, 7.7% Sought Medical Care | A human rights and vaccine attorney for Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) has finally forced the CDC to turn over its V-safe COVID vaccine injury data. After suing the CDC twice, Aaron Siri has taken the 144 million lines of data ICAN received from the CDC and created a visual dashboard to make the data easy to see and interpret. | | |
Air National Guard Board Finds Military's Shaky COVID Vax Mandate Unlawful, As West Point Holds Out | |
In a unanimous decision similar to the Navy's in the spring, an Air National Guard administrative separation board voted to retain Technical Sergeant (TSgt) Jacob Byers, who refused to comply with the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Meanwhile, West Point found an unvaccinated cadet guilty of misconduct.
The seperation board found that the vaccine order was unlawful, that the mandate was for the experimental COVID vaccines approved under FDA emergency use authorization (EUA). As the article notes, “The military can only legally force service members to receive vaccines that are fully approved by the FDA.”
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Lance Corporal Catherine Arnett, USMC | Marines Dismiss Case Against Japan-based Lance Corporal Who Refused COVID-19 Vaccine | |
‘Everyone Has a Right to Follow His Conscience’: Military Chaplains Sue Pentagon Over Vaccine Mandate
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Army Approves Appeal and Eviscerates DOJ’s Entire Argument in One Paragraph
The Acting Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Ms. Yvette C. Bourcicot, approved the appeal from a soldier regarding the Surgeon General’s decision which denied his religious accommodation for the COVID-19 vaccine. In her letter to the service member, Bourcicot stated, “After reviewing the facts and circumstances presented in your appeal, I have determined that vaccinating you at this time is not the least restrictive means to further the Army’s compelling governmental interests of protecting the health of the force…”
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Congressmen Increase Pressure on Biden’s DOD to End Controversial COVID Vaccine Mandate | | |
Military’s Recruitment Shortfall a Direct Result of Vaccine Mandate: GOP Lawmakers | | |
Stunning, Detailed Testimony by Army LTC Theresa Long, MD, 09/17/22 | | |
Mysterious Fiberous Clots Found in 50-70% of All Corpses Post COVID & Is Believed to be Caused by the Vaccines | | |
Monica Crowley Podcast Interview with Matt Lohmeier | |
Listen to an exclusive interview regarding the destructive Wokeism destroying military institutions including the Navy and Space Force. | |
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Has the Air Force Academy Become Just Another Liberal Arts School?
By Dr. Scott Sturman, M.D. USAFA ’72, STARRS Board of Advisors
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Total applications to the USAFA fell 28% in 2022 and qualified applications amounted to only 54% from the previous year. The director of admissions, Colonel Arthur Primas, used COVID as a scapegoat, but there are other causes at play. When asked about Diversity and Inclusion’s (D&I) influence on Academy recruiting, he stated, "This focus has proven a tremendous strength for the U.S. Air Force Academy recruiting." Is this controversial program used to achieve equal opportunity or does it have a more sinister aspect?
Fifty-four years ago, I was one of 1,250 cadets entering the class of 1972. Four years later, only 754 cadets graduated — an attrition rate of 40% that was consistent with most classes from that era. The administration recognized that the selection process was inherently imperfect, and it could not predict how candidates would perform under extreme duress. Although an applicant may appear to be well qualified, it was impossible to discern how he would react to uncompromising expectations and relentless verbal and physical abuse. The Academy administration sought to exert four years of unremitting pressure to force lesser committed cadets to resign and to forge a bond between classmates who elected to remain.
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The USAF Finds Itself with a Critical Shortage of Pilots While Claiming It Has Too Many White Officers | |
Mid-career Air Force aviators have been told that they aren’t wanted -- meaning they have seen it in writing from Major General Ed Thomas, Commander, Air Force Recruiting Service, Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas:
“We simply can no longer afford for significant segments of our society to be underrepresented in our U.S. Air Force or our newest branch, the U.S. Space Force. …In all, 86 percent of our aviators are white males. Less than 3 percent of our fighter pilots are females. The mission ... is to bring a singular focus to recruiting qualified women and minorities who have not always felt they belonged.”.
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Runaway Wokeness at the
Air Force Academy
| The Patriot Post’s writer and analyst, Douglas Andrews, writes a biting essay on the increasing trend of Wokeism and a nonsensical degree of political correctness infesting the US Air Force Academy. The evolution is shocking. From seven years ago when the militant atheist Mikey Weinstein of the Military Religious Foundation (MRFF) complained about that a Bible verse written on a cadet’s whiteboard outside his room violated separation of church and state, to the recent Academy seminar titled “Transgender Visibility and Awareness in Our Air Force,” Andrews chronicles this shift in focus from creating a warrior culture to establishing a coddling culture. |  |
AFA Cadets, Faculty Hailed for Diversity Efforts | Lt. Gen. Richard Clark, superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, shares a moment with Cadet 3rd Class Camden Larsen during the school's first diversity, equity and inclusion innovation awards ceremony in Mitchell Hall, Aug. 16. Camden was recognized for his leadership, work with the Academy's Spectrum Club, and his involvement in the school's diversity efforts. | | | | |
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US Military Base Schools Indoctrinating Children in Left-Wing Ideology: Report
U.S. troops serving overseas may find that government schools are indoctrinating their children and teaching them to keep secrets from their parents. According to a report from the Claremont Institute, classes from the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) teach radical activism, gender ideology, and hiding gender questions from families to children.
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Air Force Academy Holds ‘Transgender Visibility’ Seminar
On 22 Sept, the United States Air Force Academy held a seminar promoting "transgender visibility and awareness in our Air Force.” The "discussion" session focused "on awareness for transgender communities in the military," according to a copy of an invitation for the event obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Events of this nature are part of a wholesale push by the U.S. military to “foster a more culturally inclusive environment.” Critics say this type of training is part of a Woke cultural agenda that is being mainstreamed by the Progressives/Marxists intent on declawing and defanging the military.
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Air Force Thinks Letting Men And Women Bunk With Each Other Will Boost Sagging Recruitment
The Air Force announced a new mixed gender training facility as a potential solution to recruitment challenges facing its special warfare branch and a means of creating a cohesive team for special warfare trainees.
The 76,000 square foot mixed-sex aquatic training center is slated for completion in 2023, according to the Air Force’s press release. The $66.6 million facility will feature co-ed restrooms, locker rooms, and showers. Men and women will bunk together in open bay dormitories and utilize individual shower rooms and restrooms within locker areas.
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