Tag: 130th Engineer Brigade
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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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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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 40
“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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 38
“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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 37
“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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 36
“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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 35
“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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 34
“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…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 33
“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,…