A group of retired senior military officers and others sent a letter to President Donald Trump, expressing their concern about the mandated COVID-19 and anthrax vaccinations.
Signatories included members of Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS), the MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates, and the Calvert Task Group. Recipients of the June 2 letter also included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, other Secretaries, and various members of Congress.
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The leadership of STARRS, MacArthur Society and Calvert Task Group sent the following letter to President Trump (@POTUS @realDonaldTrump) today:
Mr. President:
We are grateful for the precedent set by your unconditional pardon on May 28, 2025, of Lieutenant Mark Bashaw for… pic.twitter.com/A0TjrPhawA
— STARRS (@STARRSmission) June 2, 2025
STARRS Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Michael Rose, told The Gateway Pundit the letter makes a very valid argument for President Trump to “direct full and unconditional pardons and amnesty and follow-up remedies to right the wrongs committed against service members related to vaccine mandates.”
As stated in the letter, “Mandatory COVID shots from 2021 to 2023, as well as the earlier anthrax vaccinations from 1997 to 2003, were formally declared by federal officials to be ‘unlawful as implemented’ and ‘illegal,’ respectively.” Rose pointed out, “There are thousands of military members who have been harmed by their refusal to take those unlawful vaccines that are still suffering.” And according to him, “The remedies simply aren’t coming fast enough.”
In Rose’s opinion, the Boards for Correction of Military/Naval Records (BCM/NR), to which service members rely on to correct legal errors or injustices in their military records, are “slow” and “ineffective.” Requests can take years to be adjudicated, and this is a disservice to the men and women who have donned a uniform in service to the nation, he explained.
“We have to speed up getting people who were thrown out unlawfully back into the military and keep in the military people being discharged from the military unlawfully,” Rose asserted.
“The President has the power to pardon and to give amnesty, so if the courts acknowledge that people have been harmed unlawfully then why not pardon or give amnesty to them?” he asked.
“People deserve pardons or amnesty for all alleged wrongs caused by, or related to, the illegal vaccines, and not just for actions caused `solely’ by the illegal vaccines,” Rose said. “After all, the illegal conduct by the government is many times more egregious than what military members opposing the vaccines are accused of doing.”
For example, former 1st Lieutenant Mark Bashaw Mark Bashaw was discharged from the Army in 2023 after being found guilty in a 2022 court-martial for refusing to participate in the COVID-19 shot requirement, testing, and masking. Giving glory to God, Bashaw announced a pardon by President Trump on May 28.
I just received a Presidential Pardon from President Donald J. Trump. I am humbled, grateful, and ready to continue fighting for truth and justice in this great nation.
Thank you, Mr. President @realDonaldTrump and to your incredible team, WRWY
Special shout out to… pic.twitter.com/wxiM3u1YF6
— Mark Charles Bashaw (@MCBashaw) May 29, 2025
Because there are so many cases similar to Bashaw’s, Rose and the other signatories of the letter suggest the President consider pardons or amnesty, thereby “wiping the slate clean” for the entire group punished or thrown out of the military for their objections to the COVID-19 or anthrax shots. “He has the authority to declare pardon or amnesty.”
As the powers that be mull these ideas over, Rose called attention to an issue that he hopes will reach President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth. “It is a very important point to recognize that the directives that have come out have said that military members, past and present, should get remedies if the sole reason they were discharged was because of failure to take the COVID-19 shot.”
Rose said, “For many of those who were punished like this, it has been couched in different terms to obscure the truth of the matter.” For example, “Many were unable to promote because they got bad ratings and were subsequently discharged.” The problem here is that “they ignore the fact that the reason the service member didn’t get promoted was because of refusing to take the shot and participate in the unlawful mandate.” Therefore, the sole reason for getting booted from service was for refusing an experimental shot, not an unfavorable evaluation report or a lack of promotion.
What military commanders did to those under their command was “a thousand times worse than someone refusing to take a shot or wear a mask,” Rose argued. “They were the ones violating the law according to federal courts and the admissions of the Secretary of Defense.”
“Therefore,” Rose said, “service members should get amnesty or pardons even if what they were punished for was caused by or related to the illegal vaccine mandates.” For him, the best solution rests in the President’s hands, providing thousands upon thousands of pardons or amnesty for all.
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