BREAKING: Army Soldier Files Criminal Complaint Against Commanding General for Unlawful Retaliation – in Violating His Whistleblower Status | The Gateway Pundit

The Gateway Pundit reported that the U.S. army punished service members who had non secular objections and exercised their authorized rights to refuse the COVID mandate. One of many targets of this vindictive habits is former Military medical officer and whistleblower First Lieutenant Mark Bashaw.

In June, 5 months after the vaccine mandate was rescinded, Bashaw was booted from the army.

Now, Bashaw has lodged a grievance towards his commanding officer, Main Common Robert Edmonson, alleging that he was unlawfully retaliated towards for charging that the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate was illegal.

Bashaw tells The Gateway Pundit, “My responsibility as a army medical officer, and an Military officer usually, was to speak points correctly to my chain of command, which I did. After which, they retaliated towards me for a complete of 573 days earlier than I used to be unlawfully discharged on 26 June 2023.”

Bashaw claims his elimination is direct retaliation for warning his chain of command of the potential harms of the COVID-19 vaccines, masks, and checks.

On January 18, 2022,  Main Common Robert Edmonson convened Bashaw’s court-martial.

On April 29, 2022, Bashaw was discovered responsible by Choose Robert Cohen within the particular court-martial ordered by Common Edmonson. Choose Cohen, nonetheless, elected to award “no punishment” to Bashaw at sentencing.  He then highlighted Bashaw’s excellent character and 16 years of honorable service and even advisable that Common Edmonson drop all prices and reverse Bashaw’s conviction.

The Military refused to drop the fees. Then, MG Edmonson inflicted extra hurt by initiating involuntarily separation towards Bashaw based mostly on the unjust and illegal court-martial conviction alone.

In June, Bashaw was involuntarily separated from the army after 17 years of honorable service. Bashaw joined the tens of 1000’s of different extremely educated and morally brave service members who had been unlawfully discharged for taking a stand in protection of the Structure and their very own authorized rights. Most of those heroes obtained a vindictive basic discharge from the army branches that they had served so faithfully, making it extremely troublesome to acquire civilian employment and different advantages.

Bashaw is now searching for an investigation and/or UCMJ prices towards Edmondson, alleging Edmondson retaliated towards him for 523 days after receiving protected whistleblower communications alleging violations of regulation, federal legislation, and substantial risks to public well being and security related to the COVID-19 pictures.

“Commanders who knowingly violated the UCMJ by retaliating towards Service Members who submitted protected communications have to be held chargeable for their actions. We’re at a time when belief in our institutional leaders is at an all-time low. Common Charles Hamilton has an obligation to take correct motion upon this felony grievance with the proof therein,” Bashaw shared with TGP.

Learn Bashaw’s full grievance right here:

U.S. Military Communications-Electronics Command, in addition to Military Materiel Command, are conscious of Mr. Bashaw’s allegations. Every division informed The Epoch Times, “As a matter of coverage, we don’t talk about ongoing personnel issues. We do take all allegations critically and can evaluate the grievance.”