Warfighting • Lethality • Meritocracy • Accountability • Readiness

 

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Since July 2020, STARRS has tracked, monitored and exposed the Marxist CRT/DEI woke agenda in the US military and our nation's service academies in order to show the danger of this ideology and how it negatively affects recruitment, retention, morale and readiness. We also worked on the C19 vax mandate issue pertaining to service members. Our purpose is education and awareness for an informed citizenry. Now we are tracking the fight to eliminate the divisive CRT/DEI ideology from the military and a return to merit and common sense.


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USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting

Many STARRS people attended in-person or watched online Thursday's meeting of the USAFA Board of Visitors held at the Air Force Academy. USAFA removed the video of the meeting with the link that we sent out to everyone that morning, but we made a copy and it's on our website, Rumble and YouTube channels.


STARRS Chairman Lt Gen Rod Bishop, USAF ret, USAFA '74, was there at the meeting and wants to relay to all this message:


"What a wonderful week to be a supporter of STARRS! The August 2025 meeting of the USAFA BOV="progress on steroids." First, many thanks to all of you for your support! Without that support, our messages would not have been heard. Secondly, our sincere gratitude to the Board of Visitors. From Representative August Pfluger's opening comments about "resetting the BOV" and putting some teeth back into the Board, to Stoli's closing comments about "eradicating DEI," STARRS' influence was clear and present. Special thanks to BOV members Dan Clark and Charlie Kirk as well for their motivational and "on point" messaging. Below is a sampling of some of the feedback I have received. Again, sincere thanks for all of your support!


"Gen Bishop, (Dr Scott),


I saw most of the BOV meeting today flying back from Vegas. In one word. Congratulations!


All the seeds you have sewn in District 1 (Hunger Games reference for the Capital) for the last three years have taken root and along with choking out DEI in the military and the Academy, has grown a group of patriots on the BOV that just didn’t sit there in vertical scan and watch briefing, but are ready to help the Supe complete the job of returning meritocracy and the war fighter ethos to the Academy. And maybe get the chapel completed by 2027 instead of 2029.


Sit back and enjoy a Weller 12 year old whiskey and if inclined a good cigar. You did great!!"


The new Boards of Visitors of the military service academies are thankfully no longer "dog-and-pony shows". Here's our coverage:

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Video of August 7, 2025 USAFA Board of Visitors Meeting

Video and Slides

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USAFA BOV Vice Chairman: “The enduring truth is that unity, not diversity, is our strength.”

Closing remarks by USAFA Board of Visitors Vice Chairman Col. Doug “Stoli” Nikolai, USAF ret, USAFA ’89

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Making sure cadets can articulate and feel in their soul American Exceptionalism

Closing remarks by USAFA BOV member

Charlie Kirk

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“The discipline is to teach, not to punish”

Closing remarks by USAFA BOV member

Dan Clark

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Status of the CRT/DEI Agenda at the Air Force Academy

USAFA BOV member Charlie Kirk asks about the removal of this ideology

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DEI Admissions Gatekeeper Gives Briefing at USAFA BOV Meeting

Related to Admissions, new WH memo:

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Trump Makes Universities Fork Over Admissions Data To Prove They’re Not Doing Affirmative Action

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The Air Force Academy Deserves Real Oversight. Will the Board of Visitors Follow Through?

By Doug Truax, USMA ’92

 

Latest News & Articles

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Bringing Academies & War Colleges Back to Centerline

By Commander Salamander 

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Spiritual Radicalism

Two retired chaplains on the STARRS Board of Advisors provide their thoughts on the Army's new Spiritual Fitness Guide

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Woke Hasn’t Gone Away: It Is Rising – Again

STARRS BOA member Col Rob Maness (USAF ret) interviews author of new book, “The Woke Mind Viruses: Wokeism, Liberalism, Leftism, Globalism--The Mind Plagues destroying Western Civilization and how to stop them"

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The Cincinnati Beat-Down

By Kendall Qualls, former Army Captain President of Take Charge

STARRS Board of Advisors

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STARRS Board of Advisors member Frank Gaffney interviewed Ty McCoy, USMA ’67, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force and on the board of the MacArthur Society

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Jim Banks is Leading the Way to De-Woke the Military. The Rest of the Senate Must Follow.

By Victoria Manning

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Hegseth announces return of Confederate memorial to Arlington National Cemetery, removed by ‘woke lemmings’

"To call someone a "lemming" means they are someone who mindlessly follows the crowd, even to their own detriment, like running off a cliff. It implies a lack of independent thought and a tendency to conform to group behavior without considering the consequences."

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‘Drill Sergeants Are Back’: Hegseth Reinstates Practices To ‘Make BASIC Great Again’

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DEI Won’t Just Go Away

How to undue years of indoctrination in the federal workforce

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Trump Admin Puts Nail In Coffin Of Biden-Era Vaccine Discrimination

Hopefully DOD is next in wiping the records

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Congressman introduces Bill to Provide Backpay to Service Members Discharged Under Biden’s COVID Vaccine Mandate

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COVID-19 Military Shot Mandate Falls on Shoulders of Senior Military Leadership, Not on Backs of Lawyers Giving Poor Advice

By J.M. Phelps

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Get Uncomfortable: A Decision HAS to be Made | Kacy Dixon

Former military intelligence officer and JAG attorney unpacks ongoing legal and administrative challenges surrounding the reinstatement of military personnel impacted by COVID-19 vaccine mandates

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Free Hillsdale Course: Marxism, Socialism, and Communism

Professors of history, politics, and economics look at Marx’s life and writings, the misery and brutality in the Soviet Union, the atrocities of communist China, and the proliferation of Cultural Marxism in America.

Don't let it happen here.

 

Upcoming STARRS EVENTS

• 12 AUG: STARRS "American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination" presentation, Woodland Park Library, 218 E Midland Ave, Woodland Park, CO, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm MT


• 13 AUG: STARRS "American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination" presentation, Briargate Church, 9550 Otero Ave, Colorado Springs, CO, 6:30 pm-8:00 pm MT


• 21 AUG: STARRS "American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination" presentation, American Legion, 105 Sumter Ave, Summerville, SC, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm


CONTACT STARRS to schedule this presentation for your group

 

What People Are Saying:


"Bay tossing" isn’t random cruelty. It is stress inoculation. Mattresses are flipped, gear is scattered, and order is collapsed on purpose. Why? Because war is chaos, and soldiers must restore order while under pressure. Trainees learn to stay calm, adapt quickly, and lead through disorder. That cannot be taught through calm lectures. It must be experienced. Ban this, and you risk sending troops into real danger with untested minds. That is not kindness. That is negligence. You do not make steel by cooling the forge."


“In the cauldron of stress fighters are created. Stress tempers the spirit and reveals / grants competency. It creates warriors that win, never quit, and understand the mission. Well done Sir.”


“Basic was difficult at the time, but when I look back on it with an older man’s perspective, I see the genius of it. I owe much of what I’ve achieved in my life to the severity and guidance of my Fort Benning drill sergeants. I’m a better man, husband, and father because of it.”


“If you train warriors like activists, don’t be shocked when they fold under fire. Basic Training isn’t a safe space. It’s where weakness gets burned off and warriors are forged. Start soft, finish dead. Kill the woke war machine.”


“This is superb. Shark attacks are a core method in developing a soldier’s combat readiness. Enlistees that do not posses the ability to remain collected under immense mental/emotional pressure are a liability to mission, team, and self."


 

E Pluribus Unum – Unity is America’s Strength

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

STARRS, a 501c3, works to eliminate the divisive racist and Marxist CRT/DEI/Woke ideology that has infiltrated the US Military, and promote the return to a warfighter ethos of meritocracy, lethality, readiness, accountability, excellence and standards in the military. Please help support our mission:

 

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