“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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]
“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, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
“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 […]