{"id":2413836,"date":"2025-03-19T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-appoints-charlie-kirk-and-michael-flynn-to-military-academy-advisory-boards-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T10:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T14:25:55","slug":"trump-appoints-charlie-kirk-and-michael-flynn-to-military-academy-advisory-boards-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-appoints-charlie-kirk-and-michael-flynn-to-military-academy-advisory-boards-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appoints Charlie Kirk and Michael Flynn to military academy advisory boards &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-appoints-charlie-kirk-and-michael-flynn-to-military-academy-advisory-boards-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2413836&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - 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They will make our Country proud. Congratulations to all!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Bannon is the daughter of former White House strategist and current talk show host Steve Bannon. She graduated from West Point in 2010. Mobbs is the center director for the Independent Women&rsquo;s Forum and graduated from West Point in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&rsquo;s appointments to the Naval Academy included his former valet and Navy veteran Walt Nauta and political strategist and former White House press secretary Sean Spicer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Completing my list of appointments to the United States Naval Academy, I am happy to announce that the full Board will consist of Sean Spicer, Walt Nauta, Congressman &lsquo;Doc Ronnie&rsquo; Jackson, Congressman Derek Van Order, Senator Tim Sheehy, and Earl Ehrhart,&rdquo; Trump <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114179869587194428\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump concluded his string of posts with his selections for the Air Force Academy. Among his appointments was Kirk, a puzzling choice given that Kirk has no military experience or college degrees.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Our Great United States Air Force Academy will soon have an incredible Board of Visitors, composed of Doug Nikolai, Dan Clark, Senator Tommy Tuberville, Charlie Kirk, and Dina Powell,&rdquo; Trump <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114179860762359782\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/world\/3351282\/trump-putin-ceasefire-negotiations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>TRUMP AND PUTIN AGREE TO PRELIMINARY CEASEFIRE NEGOTIATIONS IN MIDDLE EAST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The board of visitors serves a distinct purpose at each military academy. For the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usafa.edu\/about\/bov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Air Force<\/a>, the board &ldquo;inquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods, and other matters relating to the Academy which the Board decides to consider.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facadatabase.gov\/FACA\/s\/FACACommittee\/a10t0000001gznLAAQ\/com000246\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">West Point<\/a>, the BOV &ldquo;serves in an advisory capacity to the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point,&rdquo; focusing on various matters, including &ldquo;quality of life issues, character development, military and physical programs, athletics, and admissions.&rdquo; The board of visitors serves similar functions at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usna.edu\/PAO\/Superintendent\/bov.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Naval Academy<\/a>, inquiring into &ldquo;the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2043317\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2043317\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump appoints Charlie Kirk and Michael Flynn to military academy advisory boards President Donald Trump revealed his selections for advisory boards of the nation\u2019s military academies in a post on Truth Social on Monday.\u00a0 Among those selected for positions were political activist Charlie Kirk and former national security adviser Michael Flynn.\u00a0 Recommended Stories US Institute<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2413837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trump-no-tax-on-tips-nevada-rally.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trump-no-tax-on-tips-nevada-rally.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}