WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville is one of the newest members of the U.S. Air Force Academy Board of Visitors.
President Donald Trump announced his picks for the Board of Visitors in a Truth Social post Monday. Trump filled the board with several loyalists including Doug Nikolai, Dan Clark, Charlie Kirk and Dina Powell.
“Our Military Service Academies should be building LEADERS for the greatest fighting force on earth…not ‘social justice warriors,’” Tuberville said in a post on X about the announcement.
Our Military Service Academies should be building LEADERS for the greatest fighting force on earth…not “social justice warriors”.
I’m honored to be part of helping to restore that mission. Thank you, Mr. President! pic.twitter.com/DohtYH8bpG
— Tommy Tuberville (@TTuberville) March 17, 2025
The Board of Visitors oversees the “morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, (and) academic methods” of the academy, according to its website. The president appoints members to the board with the other members coming from Congress.
Trump ordered the dismissal of members of the military academies’ Board of Visitors last month in a Truth Social post saying they had been “infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years.”
Tuberville has been a strong supporter of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s efforts to reform the military and to rid “woke” ideology out of the armed forces.
Tuberville blocked about 400 military promotions over the Pentagon’s abortion policy in a months-long blockade in 2023, before eventually relenting.
The Alabama senior senator is the chair of the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel. He has been focused on recruitment efforts for the military. The subcommittee will have a hearing on the status of the military academies next week.