Category: Military
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American Military Officers Honoring Their Oath To Defend The Constitution
November 23, 2025 Mr. President, a US Army surgeon and lieutenant colonel, Dr. Terrance Lee Lakin, once requested of his chain of command to authenticate his orders as legitimate and legal to redeploy to a combat theater of operations and was soon after court-martialed for failing to show up for his unit’s deployment after he…
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Will Congress Finally Take Action on Military Sexual Assault?
by Sharon Rondeau (Sep. 25, 2023) — In a series of articles beginning early this year and in particular, an August 8, 2023 report, CNN exposed the U.S. Coast Guard’s attempts to conceal its investigation into reported sexual assaults about which, once exposed, members of Congress began to ask questions. “The then-leader of the US…
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The Gary Mason Story Concludes with “A Divine Solution”
by Sharon Rondeau (Feb. 23, 2022) – Over more than three years, The Post & Email released 49 articles, each its own chapter, relating the experiences of former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason, II who in 2000 entered military service with high hopes of a lifetime commitment serving his country, as many in his family…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 49
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 9, 2021) – In Part 48, former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason described how after he became an inpatient in a program designed to assist members of the military to overcome various forms of trauma, his chain of command at Ft. Lee, VA responded by permanently assigning him to Walter Reed…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 48
by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 7, 2021) – This segment of former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason’s story describes the ongoing difficulties he encountered while at Fort Lee, VA as his chain of command attempted, in various ways, to administratively end his career even as a congressional inquiry Mason filed with the office of Maryland Sen.…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 47
by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 17, 2020) — Continuing from Part 46, former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason elaborated on the Army’s efforts to demonstrate that he was unfit for duty after more than a decade of exemplary service, invoking the specter of mental illness or suicidal “ideation” as justification. Enlisting in 2000 in the infantry,…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 46
“WE WERE RECEIVING DEATH THREATS” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 2, 2020) — In the previous section of this story, former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason described how the relationship with his command at Fort Lee, VA became increasingly strained even as he continued to excel in the Captain’s Career Course in preparation for promotion to…
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Why is Senator Cardin’s Office Responding Now?
“I AM STILL SEEKING YOUR ASSISTANCE WITH MY CASE” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 31, 2020) — On Sunday evening, former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason sent an email to the office of U.S. Senator for Maryland Ben Cardin which garnered an unusually rapid response. The email was sent as a follow-up to Mason’s 2013 request…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 45
“STAY HERE AND WAIT” by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 31, 2020) — This part of former U.S. Army Capt. Gary Mason’s story unfolds as he was awaiting a response from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department and the office of Maryland U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin regarding complaints he filed against his command in…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 44
“THEY’RE DOING SOMETHING ILLEGAL” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 3, 2020) — This section of former U.S. Army Captain Gary Mason’s story continues at the point in early June 2012 when two 130th Engineer Brigade command officers attempted to stop Mason from leaving Hawaii for Ft. Lee, VA, where he had been reassigned from the 130th,…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 43
“YOU HAVE BEEN PLACED ON AWOL” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 22, 2020) — This section of former Capt. Gary Mason’s story continues at the point when he was departing Hawaii’s Schofield Barracks for Ft. Lee, VA to continue his Army career after several years of discriminatory treatment and his filing of both congressional and Equal…
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Trump Launches Task Force to Address Veteran Suicide
CAN THIS PROBLEM BE PREVENTED? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 17, 2020) — On Wednesday afternoon, President Donald Trump took to the podium at the White House to introduce a new initiative put in place by an executive order last year with the purpose of preventing post-service suicide. The effort, whose acronym is “PREVENTS” (“President’s Roadmap…
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New Petition Asks President Trump to Declassify File of Civilian Contractor
KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN, JUNE 19, 2012, BUT HOW? by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 17, 2020) — Mrs. Pauline Boyle, widow of former Chicago police officer and civilian contractor Thomas J. Boyle, has launched a change.org petition asking President Trump to declassify her late husband’s government file so that she might finally learn the cause of his…
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Are Military Brass Planning to Defy the President?
“THAT’S CALLED A MUTINY” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 6, 2020) — At approximately the 25-minute mark in his Thursday broadcast, radio host and political commentator Dan Bongino stated that he has been in touch with “multiple sources” who say a number of current military officials and civilians are considering defying President Trump if he decides…
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Former U.S. Army Soldier’s Wife Invited, then Disinvited to Accompany Michelle Obama on Overseas Trip
“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…
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How to Get Verification of Military Service
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…
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Approached with Alleged Military Abuses, Biden Failed to Respond, Part 2
“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…
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Approached with Alleged Military Abuses, Biden Failed to Respond
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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 42
“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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 41
“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…