The leadership of STARRS, MacArthur Society and Calvert Task Group sent the following letter to President Trump:
June 2, 2025
President Donald J. Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
Mr. President:
We are grateful for the precedent set by your unconditional pardon on May 28, 2025, of Lieutenant Mark Bashaw for punishments he received as the result of the military’s COVID mandates. All former and current Service Members harmed by those mandates need and deserve similar justice and grace. Note: For the purposes of this letter the term Service Members is intended to include Coast Guardsmen and Merchant Mariners who were also adversely impacted by the unlawful mandates.
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.
All anthrax and COVID-era Service Members adversely impacted by the unlawful mandates have shown patience and faith in a system which abused and abandoned them–and has not provided them with effective and timely remedies through the Boards for Correction of Military Records (BCMR) or equivalent for Merchant Mariners.
To right these wrongs, we respectfully request you order full and unconditional pardons, amnesty and remedies for all Service Members negatively impacted, in any way, by the military’s anthrax and COVID mandates.
Further, based on your unconditional pardon and amnesty, we request you direct the Secretary of Defense and Service Secretaries to remand all previously denied BCMR cases for expedited reconsideration to promptly provide full and fitting relief. Those who have sworn to defend our Nation with their lives deserve full and swift remedies, to restore justice and trust in our institutions as well as to enhance military readiness.
An Executive Order (EO) directing full and unconditional pardons and amnesty, or an amendment to Executive Order No. 14184, Reinstating Service Members Discharged Under the Military’s COVID-19 Vaccination Mandate, will accomplish these objectives and remedy the existing ineffective, untimely, bureaucratic intransigence and resulting injustice.
If we may be of further assistance, we can be reached at the STARRS corporate email at mission@STARRS.us.
We sincerely thank you for your leadership in restoring our military readiness and trust in our great country.
Respectfully yours,
Robert D. Bishop, Jr.
Lieutenant General, USAF, Retired
Chairman, Board of Directors
Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS)
https://starrs.us/
https://starrs.us/request-for-help/
Joseph W. Arbuckle
Major General, USA, Retired
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS)
Ronald J. Scott, Jr., Ph.D.
Colonel, USAF, Retired
President & CEO
Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS)
The Honorable Michael T. Rose, JD/MBA
Executive Vice President & General Counsel
Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS)
William Dean Lee
Vice Admiral, USCG, Retired
Advisor
Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS)
William F. Prince
Colonel, USA, Retired
President
The MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates
https://macarthursociety.org
Charles Thomas Burbage
Captain, USN, Retired
President
The Calvert Task Group
https://calverttaskgroup.org
cc:
The Honorable Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defense
The Honorable Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation
The Honorable Douglas A. Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs
The Honorable Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security
The Honorable Roger F. Wicker, Chairman, Senate Armed Services Committee
The Honorable Jack Reed, Ranking Member, Senate Armed Services Committee
The Honorable Mike Rogers, Chairman, House Armed Services Committee
The Honorable Adam Smith, Ranking Member, House Armed Services Committee
The Honorable Jerry Moran, Chairman, Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee
The Honorable Richard Blumenthal, Ranking Member, Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee
The Honorable Mike Bost, Chairman, House Veterans’ Affairs Committee
The Honorable Mark Takano, Ranking Member, House Veterans’ Affairs Committee
Letter to POTUS 6.2.2025 (pdf)
The leadership of STARRS, MacArthur Society and Calvert Task Group sent the following letter to President Trump (@POTUS @realDonaldTrump) today:
Mr. President:
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