“WE HAD A TARGET ON OUR BACKS” by Sharon Rondeau (May 18, 2020) — Less than a year after former Capt. Gary Mason received a “medical” discharge from the Army under duress, his wife, Shahnaaz, also an Army veteran, was informed she had been selected for consideration to join then-First Lady Michelle Obama on a […]
HELPFUL GUIDELINES by Contributor (May 18, 2020) — Military status verification in the United States can be required for various purposes. This article discusses how you can verify your or someone else’s military status. Proof of military service may be required for several reasons. You may need it to get a job or to avail […]
“NO ONE WOULD FOLLOW UP” by Sharon Rondeau (May 8, 2020) — In Part 1 of this title, a subsection of the larger story of former Army Capt. Gary Mason, Mason related how separate face-to-face encounters in 2014 with then-President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden failed to change the Army’s trajectory of discharging […]
PART 1 by Sharon Rondeau (May 4, 2020) — For the last two years, The Post & Email has been relating the story of former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason, who was discharged in 2015 as “disabled,” a diagnosis Mason received after he attempted to expose what he saw as injustices, abuse of power, and […]
“HAVE A NICE DAY” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 28, 2020) — The following continues the narrative of former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason from our previous section, which brought the reader to the point of Mason’s having approached U.S. Sen. Daniel Inouye‘s office for assistance concerning the treatment he experienced as a service member over […]
“THEY WERE TRYING TO GET RID OF ME” by Sharon Rondeau (Apr. 26, 2020) — As reported in Part 40 and earlier sections of our series, in late 2010, following three overseas deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, Capt. Gary Mason experienced retaliation from the 25th Infantry Division and its 8th Theater Sustainment Command division, apparently […]
A VICTIM OF MILITARY SEXUAL ASSAULT by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 10, 2020) — On Tuesday morning, The Post & Email learned from a family member that a former U.S. Army captain whose story we covered beginning in June 2016 is deceased. As we reported, in 2014 the soldier was sexually assaulted while on active duty […]
“AS IF NOTHING HAPPENED” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 24, 2020) — This section of former Army Capt. Gary Mason’s story continues at the point where on the advice of his doctor, he reported to the ER following a verbal exchange with a Major in his chain of command which left him feeling threatened. As The […]
“THIS FIGHT IS FAR FROM OVER” by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 11, 2020) — Early Tuesday evening, former Lt. Clint Lorance, 35, who spent six years at Ft. Leavenworth prison after conviction on murder charges associated with his service in Afghanistan, tweeted that he is “signing a book deal.” Lorance has been commenting frequently on what […]
“THEY KEEP SAYING YOU ARE UNFIT” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 29, 2020) — This section of Gary Mason’s story continues from Part 38, which described increasing tensions between his assigned unit, the 130th Engineer Brigade, and him once he filed a request for a congressional inquiry with then-Rep. Mazie Hirono’s office. In the following section, […]
“PEOPLE ARE THREATENING YOU” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 4, 2020) — In the following section, former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason further details the fallout he experienced after filing an Equal Opportunity (EO) complaint and request for a congressional inquiry into a 2008 assault against his person in Iraq on the part of an enlisted […]
“IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT HERE, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND LEAVE HAWAII” by Sharon Rondeau (Jan. 1, 2020) — In the previous section of this story, former U.S. Army Captain Gary Mason expounded on the increasingly hostile environment in which he found himself after filing a complaint about an assault he suffered while serving […]
“SOMEONE GOT MAD” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 9, 2019) — Part 35 of our series described the building tension among former U.S. Army Captain Gary Mason; his unit in Hawaii, the 8th Theater Sustainment Command; and the 130th Engineer Brigade to which he was temporarily assigned after returning in 2011 from his second deployment to […]
CITES GALLAGHER CASE, “LARGE COST OVERRUNS” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 24, 2019) — Just after 6:30 PM EST on Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted that Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer was terminated by Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. In connection with that move, Trump said, was the issue of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who […]
“I WISH HIM ALL THE BEST” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 19, 2019) — On Tuesday The Post & Email spoke with a reader and octogenarian who exchanged correspondence with 1st Lt. Clint Lorance, one of three service members pardoned or restored in rank by President Trump on Friday in a late-afternoon announcement. Last year Mrs. […]
“A BANNER DAY” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 16, 2019) — On Friday night, the White House issued a statement declaring that “President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon)” for two former U.S. Army soldiers and a promotion order for a Navy SEAL who had been demoted as a result of […]
“OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND” by Sharon Rondeau (Nov. 12, 2019) — In Part 34 of this series, former U.S. Army Captain Gary Mason described the circumstances which led him to request a congressional investigation into treatment he experienced while serving as a Public Affairs officer for the 130th Engineer Brigade in Hawaii in […]
“IT GOT NASTIER AND NASTIER” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 5, 2019) — In Part 33, former U.S. Army Captain Gary Mason recounted his composition of a memorandum for his records after he became the target of an unwarranted and shocking verbal dressing-down by then-Col. Jeffrey Milhorn of the 130th Engineer Brigade. Mason was assigned to […]
“UNLAWFUL COMMAND INFLUENCE” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 14, 2019) — A newsletter issued on September 7, 2019 by United American Patriots (UAP) announced that a group of congressmen will be traveling to the military prison at Ft. Leavenworth, KS to meet with four service members sentenced to lengthy terms for alleged misconduct on the battlefield […]
“JUST IN CASE SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED” by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 1, 2019) — The following is former Army Captain Gary Mason’s continued narrative from Part 32. I went to Afghanistan again; I hooked up with task forces, all of the elite Special Forces units from NATO. I worked with Italy, France, Australia, New Zealand, Croatia, […]