Tag: Capt. Gary Mason
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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 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 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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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…
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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 39
“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,…
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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 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 31
“YOU’RE TRYING TO PROVOKE ME TO ANGER” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 31, 2019) —This segment continues former Captain Gary Mason’s story at the point where in late 2010, he returned to Hawaii from Afghanistan for medical reasons and was immediately assigned a press briefing to an international military audience with virtually no preparation time. While…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 27
“IT DIDN’T MAKE ANY SENSE” by Sharon Rondeau (Jun. 12, 2019) — The Post & Email’s previous chapter of this story detailed Captain Gary Mason’s 2010 deployment to Afghanistan and ordination as a U.S. Army chaplain, a goal to which he had aspired for nearly seven years between deployments and attending Public Affairs school at…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 25
“IT WAS ABOVE MY PAY GRADE” by Sharon Rondeau (May 7, 2019) — Our last installment of the story of former U.S. Army Captain Gary Mason recapped a number of “bizarre” overseas assignments he was given following his successful completion of Public Affairs school at Ft. Meade in the spring of 2010 while serving with…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 18
“THAT’S WHEN THE FIREWORKS BEGAN” by Sharon Rondeau (Dec. 14, 2018) — In our last segment on the story of former Army Captain Gary Mason, he described how he continued his Army career after returning from Iraq in late 2008 with the knowledge that the commander of his unit, 3/4 Cav., wanted him discharged from…