The U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y. President Donald Trump has dismissed members of the board of visitors at each of the military service academies for promoting what he has deemed “woke” ideology. (United States Military Academy)

Members of boards that provide oversight at the U.S. service academies are no longer in their posts, after President Donald Trump fired them for what he said was their promotion of “woke leftist” ideology.

In a message Monday on social media platform Truth Social, Trump said he had ordered the immediate dismissal of the boards of visitors at the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

The 15-member boards provide oversight and advice on various aspects, including curriculum, teaching methods, financial matters, morale and discipline.

“Our Service Academies have been infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues over the last four years,” Trump wrote. “We will have the strongest Military in History, and that begins by appointing new individuals to these Boards. We must make the Military Academies GREAT AGAIN!”

It wasn’t immediately clear whether Trump was dismissing the boards in their entirety or just members who were appointed by former President Joe Biden. He didn’t name replacements.

Historically, the president appoints six members to each board for three-year terms, while the speaker of the House selects four, the vice president selects three and the House and Senate armed services committees choose one each.

In 2021, Biden dismissed 18 Trump-appointed members of the boards, six each at West Point, the Air Force Academy and the Naval Academy.

Biden’s six appointees to the Air Force Academy’s board of visitors included retired Air Force Maj. Gen. James C. Johnson, Jenna Ben-Yehuda and Eric Kenneth Fanning, all of whom were appointed in 2022.

Johnson was described in a White House statement at the time as “a highly qualified expert on the independent review commission on sexual assault in the military.”

Fanning was secretary of the Army at the end of President Barack Obama’s second term and became the first openly gay leader of any military branch.

Ben-Yehuda was removed as the vice chairwoman, according to The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. She is the executive vice president of the Atlantic Council think tank, and her online biography describes her as “a longtime advocate for gender equity in national security.”

The United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. President Donald Trump has dismissed members of the board of visitors at each of the military service academies for promoting what he has deemed “woke” ideology. (Chad Runge/U.S. Navy)

Sexual assault prevention was one of the issues the Air Force Academy board has been working on in recent years, according to the Gazette report, which noted that the board also had three Republican members.

On Tuesday, the Air Force Academy’s website did not include a list of Biden appointees on the visitors board.

Biden’s replacements at West Point included former Obama Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and retired Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Nadja West, the first Black female three-star general in the service.

Retired Adm. Michelle Howard, the Navy’s first female four-star admiral and the first Black woman to command a combatant ship, and Jack McCain, a Navy Reserve aviator and son of the late Republican Sen. John McCain, were appointed to the Naval Academy board in 2021.

As of Tuesday, both names were still listed among presidential appointees on the Naval Academy’s website.

Two Biden appointees to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy Board of Visitors took the oath of office in May. Their terms weren’t due to expire until 2027.

One was retired Army Brig. Gen. Maritza Saenz Ryan, the former head of the U.S. Military Academy’s law department. She is the first woman and the first Hispanic graduate of West Point to serve as an academic department head there.

The other was retired Rear Adm. Joyce M. Johnson, the first female chief medical officer and surgeon general in U.S. Coast Guard history.

While campaigning and since taking office, Trump has increasingly targeted what he describes as “woke” policies in the military and other federal institutions

His administration has sought to reverse diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives introduced during Biden’s term, arguing that they undermine military readiness and cohesion.

Trump has also criticized programs at military academies that address issues like systemic racism and gender equity, labeling them as politically motivated.

Earlier this month, he ordered the dissolution of a dozen cadet clubs at West Point that were primarily centered on ethnic and gender affiliation.

In addition, Trump signed executive orders aimed at curbing diversity training programs across federal agencies and reinstating policies that emphasize traditional military values.

He has said that rooting out such examples of “wokeness” is essential to restoring what he calls the “warrior ethos” of the U.S. armed forces.