Service Academies

Did Vice-Admiral Yvette Davids, superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, lie under oath to Congress about using race-based admissions?

On February 14, Davids revised the Naval Academy's internal guidance to bar admissions officers from using race, ethnicity, or sex as "a factor for admission." One month later at a March 26 congressional hearing, Davids testified that "at no time are race, sex, or ethnicity considered in the admissions process." She said it twice more.

If that's true, then why did Davids feel the need to abolish Affirmative Action admission at Annapolis shortly after Trump took office, then act as if it wasn't official policy under her command?

Just three months prior to Davids' congressional testimony, the U.S. Naval Academy won a major lawsuit upholding its use of race as a criterion for admitting new midshipmen. The Baltimore-based judge who ruled in the academy's favor was explicit:

"The Naval Academy admits that there are certain points in the admissions process where the Naval Academy may consider race or ethnicity as one of many nondeterminative factors."

Davids demonstrated further failure of judgment by inviting a far-left conspiracy theorist and MSNBC commentator to speak on "what happens to militaries under authoritarian rule" — comparing then-candidate Trump to Adolf Hitler and other dictators — just weeks before the 2024 election. Experts believe Davids' behavior may even have violated the Hatch Act.

It's time to remove Vice-Admiral Davids from her position — and get the U.S. Naval Academy back on track.

Credit the U.S. Air Force Academy for making great strides towards undoing the damage inflicted by four years of Democrat rule. But there's plenty more work to be done before it's truly back on track.

A December 2024 lawsuit by Students for Fair Admissions points out that the academy continued to use race as a criterion for admitting cadets — a policy that only changed when Air Force command issued a memorandum eliminating all consideration of sex, race, or ethnicity. In other words, the Air Force Academy leadership only ceased its divisive Affirmative Action policies because of a Trump administration directive.

Brigadier General Gavin Marks is the Commandant of Cadets. Not only did he push DEI training at the academy, he has also been photographed giving the black power salute multiple times while in uniform. Additionally, he changed the honor code to remove sanctions for 1st and 2nd year cadets who failed to report honor violations.

In February 2024, the academy featured far-left activist Bryan Stevenson as keynote speaker for its National Character and Leadership Development Symposium. Stevenson is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, a pro-Black Lives Matter group heavily funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundations.

Associate Professor Lynne Chandler Garcia championed teaching cadets Critical Race Theory in a Washington Post op-ed. Garcia even defended the shameful behavior of Mark Milley, the discredited ex-general who held secret calls with Communist China pledging to warn the hostile country if the U.S. ever planned to attack.

Our military is not a petri dish for the Left's hateful and twisted social experiments. As President Trump and Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth work to de-woke these critical institutions, they must do so with the larger goal of transforming military culture into one which rewards real warriors — not social justice warriors.

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) Superintendent Joanna Nunan has pushed a pro-transgender, anti-Christian, DEI agenda since her appointment by Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg in December 2022. The number of applicants to the school dramatically decreased by 22 percent. "Diversity representation" increased but average standardized test scores among those accepted decreased significantly — all on Nunan's watch.

Transportation Dept. Sec. Sean Duffy recently visited the school and was shocked by the disrepair and infrastructure problems. Despite generous congressional budget appropriations, the Government Accountability Office found the academy did not put in place proper leadership or workforce planning to move infrastructure projects forward.

Nunan's legacy will certainly be defined by her removal of a famous historic painting, Christ on the Water, which depicted Jesus watching over distressed sailors at sea. It hung for 80 years in a place of prominence at USMMA until Nunan had it reduced in size, discarded its historic frame, and placed it in a damp, flood-prone basement.

Other actions of Nunan that are cause for removal include:

• Hiring a far-left extremist as the sexual assault response director at a salary of $143,000 per year — an activist who posted: "We don't have forces who do right by survivors because we don't have forces who don't abuse Brown and Black people."
• Being named as a defendant in a court case involving the sexual assault of a Coast Guard cadet. When the cadet appealed to Nunan with 124 pages of exhibits, she denied his appeal just one day later without reason.
• Keeping the COVID vaccine mandate in place at USMMA until March 10, 2023, despite the Defense Department rescinding it on January 10, 2023 — covering the March 1 application deadline.
• Creating a new policy allowing biological men to use the same bathrooms, locker rooms, and living quarters as women, and permitting transgender midshipmen to receive a waiver from obligated military service.

Nunan and her woke minions need to be rooted out and removed from the academy immediately.

New London, Connecticut's U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA) prepares cadets to become commissioned Coast Guard officers. The Coast Guard is responsible for protecting America's coastlines, but it's been penetrated with woke indoctrination that's weakened the force.

Superintendent Rear Admiral Michael J. Johnston assumed command during a time the academy was caught up in a decades-long sexual assault cover-up called Operation Fouled Anchor. A group of 13 former cadets brought a lawsuit against the Academy for sexual abuse claims dating from the 1980s through 2017 that were not addressed.

While Johnston's primary focus should have been to address the concerns around sexual assaults, he prioritized implementing woke initiatives. In January 2024 he signed the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan 2024–2026, a massive DEI overhaul of the academy's culture. Not once does the document discuss how it would make America safer.

The DEI action plan advocated for a dashboard, disaggregated by race and gender, to measure future DEI efforts. It required "cultural competence" lessons be conducted in each athletic department twice a year. Leadership also advocated for creating a "diversity, equity, and inclusion leadership" minor. Soviet-esque DEI informants were even embedded within the Corps.

Thankfully, President Trump eliminated these programs and policies after taking office. Yet Johnston remained in control of the academy until September 2025. America cannot afford officers who've demonstrated such an outrageous failure of judgment to remain in command of the next generation of officers.