The Cost of Saying No to Your Commander | 1/8/26

Keith Malinak (00:00.278)
And welcome to this edition of At the Mic. I am your host, Keith Malinak. Let me get these annoying banners off of here. it's our first show, our first gathering of 2026. And I appreciate you making time. I hope you had a great Christmas break. I hope the new year is already treating you well. If you're not familiar, we do this live every Thursday and Friday, as a matter of fact, at 3 p.m. Eastern on X.

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Keith Malinak (02:26.188)
That will begin, if all goes according to plan, on Wednesday, February 18th. be looking for, I'm so looking forward to that. So Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, you're not gonna be able to get rid of me on X live all those days at 3 p.m. Eastern. Okay, today, like I said, is a deep dive. It's a Thursday. And I just wanna say that before I get my guest in here, as Americans, we have to decide unequivocally if we want to live in freedom,

Or do we want to live under tyranny? And if the COVID era, the year 2020 and the years that followed that, if it taught us anything, it took a hypothetical and it made it a serious decision on multiple levels, on multiple fronts for so many of us. And some of you have jobs that tested you more than others.

I've made it clear that the leadership at the Blaze wanted no part to do with the COVID-19 vaccine. And I was so grateful for that. I remain grateful for that. The leadership there made the right call. But not all of you and not everyone had that option if you wanted to paying your mortgage on time and paying your rent on time or just keeping your job, being able to put food on the table. And a lot of difficult decisions.

were forced upon Americans that should not have been. But we are a free people and we don't need every aspect of our lives governed. If we get to make personal decisions, that's the way it's supposed to be. And unfortunately, our military was put in to that terrible position under the Joe Biden administration and the leadership of the military decided.

that they would have a COVID-19 vaccine mandate. And that's where we pick up our guests. hang on a second, Lance. I want to put this up here. Hang on, y'all. I've got to find this. video that, I said Wes. Lance, hang on one second. Wes made a video today, a little 10 second thing. And guys, this animation that he made,

Keith Malinak (04:52.55)
is not far-fetched at all. And crap there we go hang on look at this thing.

Keith Malinak (05:09.934)
for promoting today's and I mean Lance Castle, God bless you. Thank you for your service. A US Airman. Tell me that that animation that was not far from the truth of what you experienced, correct?

That's pretty accurate. Yeah, that was good.

I tell you, was over Christmas. I was just on Twitter and your video, the video of you popped up. I want to play that here and I've got so many questions for you. And again, thank you for your service. Thank you for making time. I'm looking forward to unfolding the hell that you've been living for the past several years now. But this is what caught my attention on X just a couple of weeks ago when I reached out to you.

You are behind that door in solitary confinement and I've got so many questions about this but here we go. Here come your, guess, Airman, is that the right title for you? Am I saying that correctly?

like that ranking more. just like missed her at this point but I was a staff sergeant. I was unlawfully demoted. We'll get into all that stuff so.

Keith Malinak (06:15.916)
Yeah, all right, Staff Sergeant Castle is behind this door and here come his, gosh, this is just painful to watch.

Get on the floor! Get on the floor!

Lance Castle (06:36.718)
I need to get my dirty right now.

I just stopped right there. I don't see you resisting. Am I wrong or?

No, you're right. I'm not

You literally just let them take you down.

I need a hand towel. I'm going for the left arm. Stop resisting! Stop resisting!

Keith Malinak (06:58.478)
I would like to point out you still need to breathe

You will get tagged! You will get tagged!

Just wait, just wait, just wait.

Let's go far stop resisting or you will get

Hangs on! Do hear me? Do not move. Do not move.

Lance Castle (07:14.946)
You will get tased.

Can I just ask sir, do you know any of these individuals personally?

Let's see, no, not at all, not personally.

I just don't know if they had your buddies doing this or if it was just some rando individuals.

Lance Castle (07:41.838)
that which I forgave obviously. He's the only one that apologizes. He's experiencing his own hell with the unawful COVID vaccine as well. he understands it.

Yeah, and I want to play this whole thing because this goes on and on and the video that I have here I mean it stops before you're off the ground. Your face bleeding at this point? I know at some point it starts bleeding.

Yeah, it is actually that point when, and when they lift me up, you'll see a little puddle of blood right there in my face.

are they dislocating your shoulder and we have some of the greatest say just say that i've got so many questions Stay down. Stay down. Stay down.

Black love, Mr. Wigman. Let's go.

Lance Castle (08:35.136)
One, two, two.

Stay down. Stay down? Like he has an option, bro! This is madness.

I'll put you up to your knees.

Lance Castle (09:03.651)
you

Keith Malinak (09:08.238)
Bring him over in front of the couch. have a little view. Medic! Medic!

Keith Malinak (09:18.968)
Yeah.

Keith Malinak (09:25.41)
I hope they're proud,

They honestly don't care at this point.

Is that the medic next to you?

Yeah, there were two other medics. Those three. Yeah, those three were the medics. And I have all their reports on I was complaining of shoulder pain, knee pain, adlaceration to my face. So they make their own report on the injuries that they've noticed and treated. You know, so so I have all that as evidence as to how I got shoulder surgery months, way months after that, you know, stuff like that.

Okay, so Lance, let's go to the beginning here. My first question, well, let a lot of people will comment under this and say that that has nothing to do with your refusal to get the COVID vaccine. And I've done plenty of research on this and it absolutely was about that, correct? Correct. Okay, and I just have to ask, your head was shaved there. Is that part of solitary confinement or is that just your hairstyle of choice?

Lance Castle (10:23.758)
Correct, absolutely.

Lance Castle (10:33.4)
no, that was my hairstyle then. And now, yeah, keep it clean.

I I'll you even more. OK, I just wanted to clarify on that. All right. So you at that point, was what? The summer of 2000. Was that July 2021?

No, no, that's April 11th, 2023, actually.

Holy crap. Wow. just, mean, this story, that video has escaped me until December of 2025. And when it came across, I mean, I was just as shocked as anyone and I had to look into that. was like, holy crap, this thing is real. But no, I didn't pitch the year on that. So that was 2023. All right. So at that point, you had been serving in the Air Force for how long?

17 years.

Keith Malinak (11:22.23)
Okay, any issues that you had along the way that they could bring up or anything until that point?

So I have one issue 16 years ago, actually on that date. Now it's like 19 years ago, but I did have an NJP from my commander for altering a PT score for a master's sergeant that asked me to do so. there's no reason for that. That was so long ago. made my, I made do on that, my dues, extra duty, blah, blah. Was never demoted from that. And it's important to state that because

When we get into the mix of all this stuff, my commander will use that from 16 years ago of like he was previously demoted and then he'll say that I had two demotions, one from him and one from then. So other than that, no clean record up to that point. And actually one of the documents that I sent you can even, will even show that.

Okay, which document do want me to get ready? And then I have a question while I'm here.

Let me just start on A. Can you find A at all? It's at the very bottom.

Keith Malinak (12:30.094)
All right, it's mmm. Well, I've got five PDFs from you. What's the title of it? Yeah

five, really? I don't know. I have no idea if it's five.

Lance Castle (12:46.286)
It's to be the most recent one that's actually no subject, but it's just a link.

Okay, I'll have to check that. Oh, you just now sent it, what, 12 minutes ago? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Okay, holy crap, man. Now I see what you're talking about. All right, A, okay, hang on. I'm getting A open. All right, let me get this all zoomed in. We're all fancy high tech here. You said it was a chief sergeant that asked you to change his PT score, his physical

Lance Castle (13:16.584)
A Master Sergeant, a Master Sergeant, and at the time,

Anything happen to that individual for asking you to falsify record?

A lot of things actually has happened since then. Um, he, at the time he denied it and I understand why he would obviously whatever, cause one of us has to go down. He didn't take the blame for it. And the whole point of that was so his airmen could PCS off to Germany. And I mean like, I'm not, it's not an excuse for me to say everyone did it obviously, but back then it was really lenient, but I did it. messed up 16 years ago. All right. might do and he, know what? He actually emailed me almost a year ago.

Keith Malinak (14:18.892)
So here is what you were referring to. So this occurred at Kirtland Air Force Base. Yes.

Yes, Yep. that's 2017. All right. So so look how much look how much further that is almost 10 years.

Okay, and what is this telling us this document here?

like this is where we're about to start. It's just shown at 2017, I have this commander, his name is Diedrich Reiss. He's actually like, if we could just read a little bit. Sergeant Castle's ability to confidently perform assigned tasks and jobs have made him stand out as one of the top NCOs in the unit. He has a history of superb Air Force fitness scores where he takes part in competing. Like blah, it's just a lot of good things that he said about me. I didn't even know.

it was a was a letter of recommendation for you yeah in 2017 okay

Lance Castle (15:17.166)
if I've gotten in trouble since that point, know, obviously not. again, I mentioned this because when we get into all this stuff here soon, all these commanders will start saying my background even before coming to their squadron, I had tons of disciplinary actions, which is untrue, completely fictitious, as we'll get into them.

So that letter that was written, that letter of recommendation was written by who is that player in this story?

A commander of a squadron. I blacked out his name in this document long time ago when I found it. His name is a Diedrich Reese, I believe, and the whole point of it is just showing that I had no issues before the COVID Monday.

Yeah. Okay. So you're serving. What year did you go in?

2005.

Keith Malinak (16:07.086)
2005. So 2005 until let's just take it up to 2021. The only issue you have is changing that PT score for someone that outranked you that made that request. And you taught me if I get any of these facts wrong, then 2021 rolls along. The military gets the COVID-19 vaccine mandate thrown upon them. And then what happens?

Thank

Yep, so we got that memo actually here. Let's see what number.

You're gonna make me look for all sorts of stuff, aren't you?

be as limited as possible, but I ended up attaching 26 attachments here.

Keith Malinak (16:48.298)
I'm seeing that now. missed that email until right now, man. Okay, what number are we looking for?

Keith Malinak (16:58.478)
I like that I can do this in order. All right so this about to put on the screen here what are we looking at sir?

just shown the order from my squadron commander to receive the COVID vaccine. Number two says mandatory vaccination will only use a COVID-19 vaccines that receive full licensure from the FDA. Obviously no, like all those weren't available. We all know that now. So this is an unlawful order is what I'm showing. It's a highly unlawful order because.

order you see this here. Gosh, you had to be so okay, let me ask you this. What was your mindset of the COVID vaccine? Did you know the train obviously was coming down the tracks? Had you decided long before I'm not putting this in my body? And but actually, I want you to answer that because I want to know what your mindset was. Because I know what mine was. And mine was from the

earliest moments of them even talking about developing this thing. was like, hell no, I'm not putting this thing. I don't need this thing, first of all. And I don't, I don't trust something that's been in development for five minutes, but I never had to make that decision. You lived it, man. So what I want to ask you is, did they ever get that into your body successfully?

Absolutely not.

Keith Malinak (18:14.69)
All right. OK. So a lot of people might say, hey, man, you sign up for the military. You are property of the federal government until you get your discharge papers. What's your response to that?

Yeah, my response would be like, where's the line in the sand for that? For instance, if a commander orders you to go to his house and clean up his bathroom and his cars on the weekend, does that mean you have to do that as well? The answer is absolutely not. That's an unlawful order. So if we can get the viewers to agree to that, that that's an unlawful order, or if they don't think that's an unlawful order and we could bump it up, we could be like, shoot your dog in the head or something, something completely ridiculous, right? That's an unlawful order.

So if they can agree to that, like, no, that sounds like unlawful to, for my commander to order me to shoot my dog in the head. Okay. Not every order is fricking lawful, obviously.

And let's look at it this way, I guess. When you signed up, you knew the list of vaccines that you had to agree to. When you signed up, you knew going in that that was what was going to be expected of you, correct? Correct. This one, developed along the way. And it was an emergency use authorization. And so it's got different rules that it plays by. But again, being in the military, I don't know.

And I'm so grateful though to see those that stood against this that have been welcomed back into the fold But that has not been the case across the board, correct?

Lance Castle (19:50.936)
Correct, absolutely.

Have you severed, like what is your relationship with the US Air Force at this point? what, and I don't want you to have to skip ahead. I want you to tell the story, but pick it up there. You get this letter and then what happens?

The fact that you mentioned that I always forget to say my disclaimer. So let me hit it real fast. My views alone and not the views of the United States Air Force or the Department of War at this point. There we go. Everything's my opinion. And I'm still active.

Okay, interesting. Okay, okay. So you get this letter. What's your reaction? Do you take this to your commanding officer? What happens here?

Yeah, well, to answer your questions also, so we had Kamala Harris constantly saying all over the news media that if Trump was the one who mandated it, she would never get it. So that already contradicts mandating it. And then also, you know, Biden at the time didn't really, he wasn't really coherent too. So that was also one of my factors that I took into consideration. But to answer your question, when I got that, I denied it. I did a religious exemption.

Lance Castle (21:04.003)
which is the lawful way of how to do a religious accommodation exemption.

That was gonna be my next question, uh-huh.

Yeah, and it was submitted and it was denied. was blanket denials across the Air Force. From that point on though, my commander was able to come at me because I was the last one in the squadron standing. You know, all these, had 12 people total that weren't, or at least stated that they weren't going to take it. And then they all trickle down, you know, like, okay, I'll get it. I'll get it once the punishment started happening.

yeah so yeah that your fellow guys were we're suffering

If we could pull up number two real fast, this is just to show that the new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hexeth, actually has called it unlawful as implemented.

Keith Malinak (21:52.226)
That's helpful. That's gotta be a helpful document to have,

Absolutely, because yeah, it shows that the current administration has opinions of it to actually be factual now.

April 23rd, 2025, this was issued. Go ahead, tell us about this thing.

Servicemembers adversely impacted by the COVID-19 vaccine mandate is what this whole memorandum is about. It's about him and Trump pretty much on their appropriate remedies for Servicemembers who suffered a wide variety of other career setbacks resulting from their principal refusal, like to take the COVID-19. So at least our administration now is highly against it.

Yeah, so, okay, sorry. February 6th is when this thing was dated. And this is where they're gonna, the review board, right, is supposed to take up. Can I ask you this? Were you surprised, I forget the number as I sit here, but I was personally surprised when I heard of how few individuals across all branches of the military refused this shot. I would have thought it would have been a lot more. Do you know the number?

Keith Malinak (23:00.494)
at the top of your head. I feel like it was just a couple of hundred maybe.

Well, I the percentage and I think the percentage was 98 % across the entire military were vaccinated with one or more vaccines, mRNA vaccines. that's pretty sad. Yeah.

Yeah, okay. It had to feel okay. So before we skip too far ahead to 2025, you in 2021, you got that original letter that we showed. And and so what was your life like between 2021? And when we saw that, that video of you, I guess in the brig, I don't know. What was going on over those two years for you, man?

was slow snowball effect until after that whole confinement video. Then it started picking up faster. But everything just starts snowballing. Snowballing to the massive snowball that it is now. They moved me squadrons because I now find out that... So these commanders, they have to have a certain percentage on how many people got vaccinated throughout the squadron. If a commander can report back to my squadron is 100 % vaccinated.

How much better does that look than another squadron commander on that base that states his 98 % or 99%, you know? And that affects promotion. And these officers, man, they want that next rank badly. This is like their, oh gosh, I can't even tell you how bad they, they'll do anything for that next rank.

Keith Malinak (24:28.608)
I love how you in your career got a request from a senior officer asking you to change a PT score. But did anyone at any time come to you and say, hey, I want you to sign this paperwork that says you took the vaccine, even though I know you didn't, just to help my numbers? Nothing of that ever happened?

no, absolutely not.

Okay, so all right. How long had you been in that brig just

That brick was 66 days. If we could show document number eight, you're gonna love this one. This is insane.

OK, I love this one. All right, let me see here. Hang on a second here. Having to continually reopen this. I'm sorry it's taken so long here.

Lance Castle (25:20.686)
Yes, the last podcast I did, was called the savant show or something. I showed no documents. Yeah, I just said everything, everything and his viewer base were like destroying me, assuming I'm over exaggerating. I'm lying. being hyperbolic. see.

I gotta bring the receipts from now on. Okay, I got it. All right, so this is a, this says February, I'm sorry, Friday, January 6th, 2023. So exactly a month ago. Commander's endorsement COVID vaccine religious accommodation requests. Okay, do you want me to read this? It's pretty short. Here's the process for the religious accommodation. Okay, so they're responding to your request to get a religious exemption on this, right?

Yeah, go for it, please.

Lance Castle (26:06.018)
No, I was accidentally ACC'd in this from my first sergeant.

Okay, so all right, so so set this up then who sent this? They sending it to and yet it was accidentally copied to you. Tell us who this

Yeah, his name is tech sergeant Isaac Crispin at the time. He accidentally CC or BCC me. And this was supposed to be for the first sergeants across the base, base wide. And somehow I got into it because all the emails between him and I, got lucky that he actually did this. here.

Do you think he this on purpose or he was not a friend? No. OK, OK. So here's what it says there. Thank you for setting that up here. Sir, here's the process. Again, not intended for you. Here's the process for the religious accommodation. I'm also including the vaccination order. Pay attention to paragraph three, where it says, quote, with full licensure approval from the FDA. That is the part of the letter that the United States Air Force messed up, as it refers to FDA approved.

away

Keith Malinak (27:05.486)
Caramarinati, I don't know that word, I'm sorry. some very specific lot numbers of the Pfizer that have never been available at Canon. That's curious. I recommend changing the verbiage to quote with approval from the FDA. Please tell me this individual got reprimanded for saying we should report it, why would

Lance Castle (27:29.568)
Absolutely not. Zero, zero accountability across.

It says that way it covers, this is what I was referring to earlier, the emergency use authorization vaccines as well. In other words, it didn't give approval to emergency use authorization vaccines. He's saying you should just go in and change that. And that was my question earlier from the onset is I don't know how this applies to the military. I think there was a time over the past five years of hell that I did know that and I have just forgotten. But here he is admitting.

That no, we can't allow an emergency use vaccine to be covered under this. So just go in and change that verbiage. Holy crap, that's a smoking gun, bro.

It is, right? have and the smoking guns that I have up to today, my gosh, man, like it's so frustrating that I don't know what do. I just keep at it, know, sending an I.D.

It's happening from over there. Yes, and I want you to tell your story because I can't imagine being in your shoes. I'll just say that. And I can't imagine being in the shoes of whistleblowers like Steve Friend, former FBI agent who is often a guest on this program. You guys, you do the right thing or you stand up for what's right and you stand up for yourself.

Keith Malinak (28:54.592)
And clearly you're standing up with the law here and with what they have in front of them, which is the contradiction here and saying go and change, go scratch out that out and fix this religious accommodation thing so that it suits our needs. And yet nothing ever happens to the people that are on the wrong side of this. And it doesn't ever seem, and I hope it's different in your case, sir, it never seems that justice is done.

or that anyone has ever made whole. Okay, so we're now in early January of 2023. You see this. What did you do with this information? Because I surmised that in the 18 months or so between you denying wanting to get the shot to here in early January, what's going on with your life in the Air Force?

Yeah, so like you said, I thought this was a smoking gun, you know, but like just I've learned that there is so much corruption all the way to the top. And I'm not saying to our administration currently, but up to the point to the AFSOC command, like it just keeps going up and up and up. And we don't have one person to just stand up and like join the ranks of accountability because they're going to be punished for it. And they don't want the retirement touch where they don't want any backlash. There's a lot of people that don't want confrontation. Yeah. My gosh.

You would think if anywhere the military, would hope. I don't know. Yeah. I mean, you would think that maybe there's some integrity here, but yeah. OK. Right. And so what is happening then between 2021, 2022 leading up to what you thought there was a smoking gun? Yes, I've got this in my possession. How great is this? What had been going on? Had your

We're in.

Keith Malinak (30:41.92)
your buddies, I mean, were they giving you the cold shoulder? Were you getting crappy assignments? What was happening then?

So buddies, well, I had no one almost that did not accept the COVID vaccine. So it was almost me by myself here.

But did they not understand your point of view at all or did they just become absorbed into the Borg?

Absorbed, like, you, so few of us that-

Like a cult, even in the military, huh?

Lance Castle (31:07.342)
Right. And, oh man, you can't, don't want to like destroy the military, the members in it that I've met, but man, I'll just say there's tons of cowards. There's tons of cowards in the military, especially in the air force. And there's only a select few that are actually courageous, bold, you know, there you go. I said it right there. Like a lot of people probably think that the military is nothing but bold, courageous warriors, you know, but no, no, absolutely not. No, no, no, no, no. Not in my opinion, at least.

I did say opinion just in case you want to try and perfect it.

Okay, so then what happens,

yeah, so my letter or my religious accommodation exemption is finally denied, which is B.

And what's the date on that? Do you remember off the of your head?

Lance Castle (31:55.17)
Yeah, pull up with you. is March 3rd, 2022 and B is all the way at the bottom. And this is denied by the Surgeon General Robert Miller. And it was wrong, like especially looking at it back today. It says, in light of your circumstances, your present duty assignment requires intermittent to frequent contact with others and not fully achievable via telework or with adequate distancing. In addition, your duties require in-person customer contact. Like this was a blanket denial again, it says

thing all over the place so many people and this guy

supervisor was also taken into consideration. While some of these duties may be completed remotely, institutionalizing remote completion of these duties permanently would be detrimental to readiness, good order, and discipline in unit cohesion.

They want to the numbers up and good.

Yeah, we've just I'm just scrolling through this here March 3rd 2022. Wow. So and when was that order originally? When did that come down?

Lance Castle (32:57.802)
It was August, mid August of 2020, 2021.

We're about seven months in here. right. Now your religious accommodation has been denied. Your appeal has been denied. And we're only what? March of 2022. Is that right?

Yeah, so number three and number four now my my commander is now has free reigns to you know come for me. let's see actually number three it says I think that word is messed up now well there's an LOR from my my commander I'll just state that there's an LOR from my commander it looks like number four COVID LOR yeah sorry about that and then my my commander no

the

Keith Malinak (33:41.582)
Alrighty.

Keith Malinak (33:47.23)
We're just in April of 2022. So this train ride is just getting out of the station still.

And what he says is just great. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Letter of reprimand, that sucks man. You gonna read the highlighted portion here? Okay, I just want to point out here, that's gotta, I you gotta have a feeling and a pit of your stomach there. letter of reprimand, that's a subject. And then, and I wanna point this out here. Number two, they bold font it and they put an exclamation mark, you are hereby reprimanded. Okay, so here's what it says.

the highlighted portion. The military cannot function when its members pick and choose what order they will follow. Rather than comply with the order to receive your first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, you chose not to receive the vaccine despite being provided ample opportunity to do so. Your choice to not follow this order poses a threat to unit readiness. Further refusal to become fully vaccinated against COVID-19 will not be tolerated.

and may result in more severe administrative action or disciplinary action under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Dear Lord. And then you've got this. What's your thoughts on this, man? Oops.

Lance Castle (35:05.856)
I wrote a rebuttal. denied my rebuttal. But now we see how wrong this was. After this, we go to number five, of which he now recommends me discharged from the Air Force. At this point, I was like, good riddance,

I was about to say, if you got that, now that being said, you went in 2005, that's when you went in, 17 years now, you've got to be thinking, what kind of retirement am I? Right? Because I assume that they would sever any opportunity to collect that, right?

The answer would have been no retirement actually. Yeah, zero retirement.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

OK, yeah. OK, so the highlighted portion, it's about OK.

Lance Castle (35:53.998)
The paragraph above it I didn't highlight that but number one just that first sentence you'll love that

gonna read that? am rec, so who is, who's writing this again?

my commander Vasquez Enrique Vasquez now retired but like I'm so my gosh 2026 like this is when I start to come for them legally you know and justifiably and nicely.

This says, I am recommending your discharge from the United States Air Force for misconduct. How kind of them to say minor disciplinary infractions. And then this is the authority for this, the code and all that stuff, general discharge. Let's see. This action could result in your separation with an under honorable conditions, general. So were they still offering you an honorable discharge at this point?

Okay, okay instead of saying disarmable they have to be convoluted

Lance Castle (36:49.004)
Yeah, exactly. And then it says, I am recommending that you receive a general discharge in paragraph one, second sentence from the bottom. So a general's not good.

Not cool.

Keith Malinak (37:01.894)
Yeah. Okay, well, so now it's getting real for you and we're about where in the timeline? is June of 2022.

I think that's June.

Yeah, so we can see the snowball. is if I just start talking about the cell extraction, especially all those comments that people are saying, like there's no way involves the COVID. Right. This is like this is so mandatory for me to even just try and say.

Are you at this point in your story, are you thinking, holy crap, I am still two and a half, were you thinking like this? I'm still at a minimum of two and a half years away from any kind of salvation coming in the form of another president, another administration. I can't hold out this long. mean, what's going on in your brain during this time, summer of 2022?

Exactly correct. All these first sergeants and fans, they're like, he only has two years left. That's like a long time under a hostile work environment with unlawful orders.

Keith Malinak (38:02.786)
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Were they talking about Joe Biden?

man.

Okay, when you said you they've only got two years left, I'm sorry. They refer you to you. You had two years left on your commitment. Is that right?

Yeah, referring to myself, yeah.

Yeah, great. And from this point forward, like, man, I love that. I love the fact that you think these are so critical right now. Just your reaction on the ones that we're Wow. I love your reaction because these are nothing compared to what's going to start happening.

Keith Malinak (38:35.146)
Holy crap. Okay, where are going next here? What number?

All let's see here. So now I've been transferred. so now I'm pending discharge, right? I'm waiting for my discharge to happen. This is June and my discharge board is for October of 2022. So I'm going up against the board for them to determine my discharge type. My commander over here is recommending me general. So more than likely they're going to side with him, you know, a commander. So luckily enough, the month prior, the COVID vaccine gets frozen from the Supreme court.

So now I'm in complete limbo. I'm like, okay, well damn, like I'm really looking forward to get out now, but now it's frozen and it doesn't get lifted until January.

Hold on, help me remember the timeline here. Frozen for the military or for like what? I forget what the rule is.

Yeah, the mandate was fro

Keith Malinak (39:28.866)
Basically saying people that denied it hold the phone. We're gonna what?

Hold discharges, hold discharges boards, hold paperwork, pause. And it took them till January of 2023 to actually remove it, remove the mandate to officially declare that that mandate is an overreach of broad discretion of authority. Yeah. So we're in the

So what was life like for you from say summer of 2022 until early 2023? Were they still isolating you or what?

Absolutely. Yes. was burning leave at enough leave at the time. And my ADC at the time told me if I don't use my leave and I went to the discharge board, this was before it was frozen, there's a chance I could lose all my leave if they discharged me. I can't go back and use my leave and I can't go back and sell it. I was like, well, dang, I ended up using all my leave. so there was that. And I ran out of leave around November of 2022. We're still in that timeframe. And then I got a new supervisor master sergeant, Carrie, who had become highly complicit.

to come. And then this is where we're at. December, 2022, he issues me a petty LOC and an LOR on the same day. And that petty LOC is for missing his work suspense that he gave me 12 minutes to do. And again, the fact that I'm on active duty right now, there you go, there's the LOR. The fact that I'm on active duty right now, and I guess possible, someone in my commands watching, or at least the legal team, know, because they're aware of this. I need to make sure everything I'm saying I can prove, you know. I can't be...

Lance Castle (41:04.398)
talking about anything fictitious because if I do they can get me doing that so yeah so anyway

A letter of reprimand, huh?

Yeah. Yeah. So he wrote me an LOR, passing LLC for calling him silly in a text message of we had, we had a friendly, uh, relationship anyway, throughout, our, you know, and being my supervisor, like we'd ask you want to go to the gym and what's up, bro? How's your day? Blah, blah. You know what saying? So like, he just writes me a random LOR like that. Like he completely flips the switch and there's a lot in there, but I just highlighted, see you silly to show you that because that becomes extremely important. And then an LLC the same day too.

It was for missing his work suspense that he gave me 12 minutes to do that I complete in 12 minutes. Cause who can complete a work suspense in 12 minutes that takes longer than 12 minutes anyway. So, so we got petty disciplinary actions now in December of 2022. And again, so this LOR that we're looking at right here, this is going to become big because they removed this document for the court martial in 2023.

What does that mean? They removed it so that what the judges didn't see it?

Lance Castle (42:10.478)
Exactly, tampering with evidence. And I have have a, sec here with the air force.

Here Another, another one of these right here. You are here by rep. that's a typo. You are here by reprimand.

Yeah, but what it says to it, it's so sanctimonious and hypocritical. Like look at that. An NCO is charged to be... No, no, it's gonna make me vomit if you read that. But they're all hypocritical like that because we'll see that they all lack integrity themselves, zero honor. But they're telling me I lack honor and integrity and all this crap,

You want to read this?

Keith Malinak (42:48.11)
I'm sorry to get hung up on this stuff, but you are hereby reprimand. So it should say reprimanded. And then down here, I can't highlight it because it's a PDF file. But right here, it says, your actions on the day and questions do not demonstrate, I mean, such a professional, meticulously crafted document here for you. I can see why they would leave this out of the evidence. OK, so they're tampering with evidence. What's next here in the old timeline,

Number seven is now January, 2023. We've now made it to January of 2023. And I can't even test for the next rank, which is tech sergeant E6, which I would have made. And in that document, that's great what they say, because this is before, this is about two weeks before the COVID mandate becomes lifted.

And you have no idea. Were you monitoring Supreme Court news like a hawk?

No, no, no, not like a hawk. But I mean, especially the fact that it was in September that it was frozen. So October, November, this is four months later. Like, I don't know how long do they need? They need four months. Yeah. Okay. Whatever.

Lance Castle (44:11.768)
Yeah, number two.

Yeah. And it says in number two, the specific reason for this action is due to the member having multiple admin actions in his PIF from 2022, as well as getting two more LORs. Like this is all the COVID stuff they're referring to and other petty LLCs that I can easily counter. But again, the fact that this was two weeks prior to the official mandate, like they should have thrown this out. They don't throw it out. They leave it in my PIF. They hold their stance on it.

I golly man, this is crazy how all the evidence that I have to this day.

I wanna pause for just a second because I see a comment here. Do you think this was intentional, Jeffy, apologist? I personally believe they gave bad batches to certain bases. my gosh, I mean, and then she says that people that she knows got their shots provided by the military all had severe things happen to their health shortly after. A little sidetrack here, anecdotally, Lance, did you?

Do you have people that you know in the military that had mysterious, you know, things happen to their health after getting the shot?

Lance Castle (45:27.118)
Absolutely not and not even anecdotally factually his name is jet 40. I was his supervisor He got that covid vaccine. I told him not to but he got it until this day He's now experiencing significant heart conditions and he's only like 23 24 And it hit him hard to myocarditis and all that. So yeah that comment was on point I don't know. I can't say for certain. Oh sure bait made some bases were you know given

Did ever come to you and go, damn, bro, you were right?

absolutely. Yeah. We still communicate to those days out of the Air Force now medically discharged. So like they completely screwed him over.

Okay, I would love to know the percentage of people in the military alone that were affected just to kind of compare that rate to the general population and what's on VAERS. Should we go to document eight here?

Let's see, document eight. no, no, that was a accidental first sergeant email that I received. So we can now go to number nine and this one, this is now the snowball where it's going to get insane at this point.

Keith Malinak (46:33.4)
Wait, it's not already insane?

No, no, no.

Okay, yeah, all right

This is a beautiful document because they recently removed this from my PIF like four months ago.

Why do people keep messing with your file, man?

Lance Castle (46:51.022)
I know, thank you. And they're not supposed to, there's only supposed to be one person who can charge it. And there's a lot of hand to the toss.

So this is the referencing the January 15th, 2023 incident. It's February 7th, 2023 that this was written up. And what are we looking at here, incident days? Do you want me to read any of this?

Yeah, you see where's this COVID vaccine the underline. Let's just go up three sentences where it starts at and just to be concise here.

Okay, yeah

Keith Malinak (47:23.288)
Okay, where am I at? And, let's see. Is it humidity? told, I don't see that as a capital.

Yeah, it's got capital, yeah.

Okay, he I'll just start here. Is this a good spot? He has been vocally disparaging of every level of leadership within the LRS Air Force and US government at large He has told other airmen that they are going to hell and the supervisor from his previous work center believes he may be an insider threat and That he has been potentially radicalized by an anti US government group in the wake of his refusal to take the kovat vaccine Do you me to keep reading?

yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, actually,

Okay, I have instructed the flight personnel not to meet with him one-on-one to avoid all interactions with him and under no circumstances to go to his home I believe Staff Sergeant Castle exhibits almost every indicator of an insider threat and should not have access to any sensitive materials or areas until after this pending actions Are resolved again more typos anyway, so right, are you

Keith Malinak (48:33.964)
What did they say? You're a threat?

There's a lot to unpack here, a lot. Were you- Absolutely not.

radicalize their plan.

Because you want to have your bodily autonomy. mean, that qualifies you for.

like egregious and arbitrary completely but the fact that they said I'm telling other airmen they're going to hell I was literally talking to the guy I just mentioned 40 about what the Bible says about hell and that's when I became a Christian around that time I was reading my Bible a lot and he was actually asking me questions about that stuff so the fact that some supervisor walked by and heard me talking about hell and just throws that in there as if I'm telling everybody like he says he has told other airmen that that my gosh like

Keith Malinak (49:14.466)
Out of context, that sounds ridiculous. I could say dammit. That might fit. but so you're basically witnessing to someone there and they're taking that and putting it into this report to make it sound like it's something that it's completely not, huh?

Yeah. And that's not even anything yet. And then it says the supervisor from his previous work center believes he may be an insider threat. Yeah, we read that. Okay. And it says in the wake of his refusal to take the COVID vaccine, which is a cause and effect there, they're blaming the, my refusal to receive the COVID vaccine is the reason why they declared an insider threat now and potentially radicalized by an anti-U.S. government group. So why this is so important because they're going to now remove in the wake of his refusal to take the COVID vaccine.

Like they start to try to be all meticulous and there's so many hands in the pot, they become careless. So that needs to be mentioned. And then the fact that it says that under it, I have instructed all in-flight personnel not to meet with him, to avoid all interactions with him and under no circumstances. That's called ostracism, ostracism segregation. is a, that's harassment. That's a crime. And I don't even know this yet. Like January 15th, I didn't know this until I got the document.

Criminal conduct, I'd like to point out is.

I am now in a hostile work environment due to this. So at this time though, I did notice people not talking to me. Like I said, Hey, how are you the more like legit ignoring me? was like, what the heck? And I didn't know this document existed at that time. Also.

Keith Malinak (50:46.122)
Okay, so I'm gonna ask you, you're in the US Air Force. Are you at this time, are you meeting with quote anti-government groups? Are you fraternizing with people who hate the US government? mean, do they have anything that they could say, your honor, look, here he is going into such and such a meeting.

Absolutely nothing. And we're going to get into that court martial too. We're no, no, absolutely not. OSI investigates me actually. And it comes back with zero findings. So that's also extremely significant. the document under it. I know. just, I just go through it quick. They remove the ostracism stuff. like, Oh crap, we probably shouldn't have mentioned that. Um, and then the third document, they start to remove all these other things. And then the final fourth document, which is the one I received, they removed all the reasonings. Uh,

of why

glad you said that. it sounds like they're realizing, holy crap, dude was totally right about the COVID vaccine. And in his stance against it, we need something else to stick.

Bingo, bingo. All right. Yeah. Since we're on that, now we're going to start getting into serious, serious stuff here. So, all right, here we go. Number 12, number 13. This is where, oh my gosh, these are still big to this day.

Keith Malinak (52:11.054)
Okay, number 12, let me get that up here on the screen. All right. And what are we looking at here? Department of the Air Force. This is a memorandum dated April 3rd, 2023. Subject is safety concerns with, is that Senior Airman Castle?

Yeah, I'm now demoted. I need to mention that. had NJP in February. Oh, you were down. Right, okay. Yeah, I had NJP due to, I was going to the Chaplain at this time. I was like, I know these guys are after me. And I had the approval of my supervisor, Sergeant Carey. He's like, yeah, go ahead, check your email there, do what you need to there. So they wrote me up for not coming to work since I was staying over there at the Chaplain. It was almost like a setup in my opinion.

You had no friends, frankly. You had been by design ostracized and put on the outs, which if they want to talk about company or they want to talk about readiness, hell, I don't know. The fact that you guys are isolating a member of your team seems not helpful. So was the chaplain, mean, did you get any kind of sympathetic ear over there?

He was the only one who was actually empathetic, actually. So he approved my, sorry. He approved my religious accommodation exemption, but even though he approved it, my commander denied it and he'll admit it on the stand too. Like he just did not care. Complete authoritarianism, tyranny, dictatorship, So this document though. wow. Okay. Yeah. This one's big. I'll just read number one concerning the issue with Castle. have been concerns.

and yeah

Lance Castle (53:50.88)
amongst the NCOs that have been involved with the situation. There are clear indicators to which we are trained on to look at for a potential active shooter.

God!

Yeah, thank you for that reaction. That's what I wanted right there. So now I'm a freaking like you said all the COVID stuff I was right on. They need new stuff. So this is how I'm about to be arrested. You know, this is this is why they're building a little paper trail that I'm an active shooter now. So yeah, it's like a greet.

That is, I mean, again, every time you get one of these documents or experience one of these situations, I mean, your heart has to sink. Are you regretting signing up for the Air Force at this point? Are you, you, you, you must be reliving the last two decades of your life thinking, what the hell have I done? And I'm sorry you were put in that position. I mean, this is, this is madness, man.

Yeah.

Lance Castle (54:43.982)
Yeah, accountability will come eventually. And till this day, like today, the fact that we're in 2023 and now it's 2026, you know, it's still ongoing. I'm waiting my appeals and all that stuff. Oh no.

Okay so an active shooter according to that letter. Are we going to document 13 now you said? Another memorandum here. I'm just looking for a date on this. About the same time, is that right?

Yeah, yeah, this was April 3. The other one was April 4.

Here we go.

I'm sorry. So vice versa. The other one's April 4th. This is April 3. So they set this one up first. Set this one up and you're love this one too.

Keith Malinak (55:24.558)
Okay, so this precedes them labeling you as a potential active shooter. This says there has been an increased safety concern. So they're setting the stage. There's been an increased safety concern for engaging with Senior Airman Castle again, the demotion. What's T Sergeant? What's STF for? Tech Sergeant Cleveland. I, Tech Sergeant Cleveland, am worried for my work centers and my family's safety.

Sorry.

Keith Malinak (55:52.174)
I longer excuse me, the longer the situation goes on and we engage in text messages, emails or other communication has led to a potential target on myself or the people around me. I want the record to show I'm addressing my potential endangerment concern for the people around me, both family and coworkers. It has been stated that there is a concern about senior airmen Castle collecting names and targeting members who are in communication with leadership or who have crossed him. Are you collecting names and making a list of in data list?

Right, no, absolutely not. So I don't even know how that was able to happen. I think she got told by my supervisor, Sergeant Carey at the time, to do that. And she never testified. I don't know why she never testified to this day, but it's not over. I have a new appeal attorney. He can actually interview her and ask her, how did she come to that consensus or whatnot? yeah. Good Lord. The fact that you're already not burnt out all the way, but like,

man.

Lance Castle (56:50.774)
You can already see what's happening here and we're having the first court. I've been through two court marshals already.

Oh my gosh. so we go to 15 next.

let's see. So now I guess I could set the stage up about the rest. So now I'm a

You go, yeah, you go however you want to. So you got a rested win?

April 10th,

Keith Malinak (57:13.422)
So now they're wasting no time. not, this thing isn't getting dragged out anymore. Now it's now the wheels of justice, if you will, are moving quickly, it sounds like. Okay, we're going to 15. All right. Pick your mark.

Yeah, so 15 is my entry of judgment from the entire trial and it shows all the charges that I definitely would love to explain at least take 10 minutes to explain. Take your Let me just go charge one real fast if you can scroll down.

Okay, charge one there is.

I'm charged with desertion. all that that we just talked about. Let's be so yeah, I'm not charged with desertion. My plea was not guilty to the right and then the findings of the judge was not guilty pursuant pursuant to rules for court martial 917, which is no evidence.

Thank you.

Keith Malinak (57:59.374)
But you were told to take leave.

So I was on leave actually, the date says March 1 to 10 April. I was on leave from one March to 12 March, first of all, but they wanted to fit the past 30 days of AWOL as desertion. Like you can't charge, be charged with desertion if you're not more than 30 days absent. So they just like, they just think that they could do that. It's my problem. Okay. Okay. So obviously I was not guilty. That's charge one charge two below. If you can scroll, please is a yeah.

Okay.

Lance Castle (58:31.022)
Okay, now this one is beautiful. Okay, so this one is disrespect to my commander Vasquez of who we've been talking about. He charges me with repeatedly interrupting him and calling him a domestic threat. And this is on February 6th is when he charged me with this. February 6th is when I had my article 15 commander's appearance with him, but he had zero idea I was recording the fricking audio, the whole conversation. And thank goodness I did because

Crispin was in that room. Yeah, thank you. Crispin was in that room and another first sergeant. Her name's Alex Serrano.

just want ask you quick question. I know that in many states, it is legal to record a conversation if at least one of the parties is aware of that. So my question to you is, do the laws of the state apply to the air base where you're located, or are there different rules in the military? Any idea there?

Oh, yeah, I do. Yeah, the laws of the state apply. So it's a one party consent state in New Mexico, unless the commander specifically releases an order of no one not being able to record. you know, it supersedes. Yeah. But like this never got brought up ever to this day in court that I unlawfully recorded or anything. So I'm in the clear completely. And the fact that it shows. So this audio shows I don't call him a domestic threat. So these are one of the most fictitious, egregious

Allegations ever like he's this is insane that they didn't even think what if he was recording this you know like they're that arrogant

Keith Malinak (01:00:08.878)
Could they say that, and I'm just pretending I'm Vasquez's attorney, could he say, well, it wasn't in that specific meeting. It was in the hallway or something.

Absolutely, but my lawyer, civilian defense lawyer, he had Vasquez authenticate it when they played it in court and Vasquez admitted that that was February 6th on that occurrence. Yeah, so yeah, I mean he could have lied. They do lie a lot on the stand, but he could have lied about that. Maybe he didn't think about that, but just to show right now where we're at. They're targeting with fictitious allegations that my gosh like if I didn't record that there's two first sergeants in the room and a commander versus me now demoted staff sergeant. Who's going to win that?

in the credibility sense, them. Yeah. And when the audio was played, the judge talked about it. She's like, he didn't even interrupt him or call him a domestic threat. So she dropped that charge on day one, actually. But now she sees what's happening. She's, man, I love that judge. And this is why I thought in court marshals, you can't be touched in court marshals because there's justice and all that stuff. But my second trial, when we get into that, my gosh, that was one of the most corrupt trials ever.

Yep.

Lance Castle (01:01:20.3)
and that I'm still trying to accountability on, completely different from the first one. So what do think of that real quick though, that he thought he could charge me with fictitious charge like that?

Yeah, I'm so glad you were recording. My gosh, how many charges are on this document? Five? Seven? OK. Anything else that you want to go over here? OK.

or the disrespect to Kerry, they already charged me with that, with the NJP, which is why I got demoted for calling him silly and not standing in parade rest when he gave me an LLC of which I did standing for. So the judge calls him out on that, which I have audio of too. The next one, the assault, they blame one of the cops and knees dislocating on me. literally wrote, yeah, I'm charged with assault.

Remind me of the date of the video we started the show with.

the 11th, April 11th.

Keith Malinak (01:02:14.67)
Okay, so this is April 10th, right? Let's see around April 10th, 2023 assault of senior Airman Diedrich D. Kelly, is in no okay, accused having the execution. Okay, so what what what is they alleging here that you struck him in the leg while he was trying to what arrest you or?

So I was put into a restraint chair when I was brought to confinement and they were trying to take all my clothes off for a strip search inspection to see if I have any contraband in orifices, if you know what I mean.

I do and so I did they do they manhandle you or do they let you just robe on your own.

They may handle me. completely, I don't consent to it, but they don't care. Seven guys throw me in a chair. This is before that video. This one's not recorded actually. So this is the day before that. And so this guy, Kelly, his knee dislocates, but that's cause he has an injury of his knee always dislocating from a prior injury. know, like it pops out and he has to have it popped in. So it popped out of him trying to untie my shoe and he testifies to all this and

The fact that I was charged, I was charged with, so it was first dislocating his knee, then they try and change it to striking his leg, first of all, which is why they kept me held in 66 days of pretrial confinement for the first.

Keith Malinak (01:03:37.164)
This is what got you put in the brig.

No, I was already put in the bridge. was when I arrived.

Yeah. I'm sorry. OK.

Yeah, what put me in the brig was the active shooter, the insider threat, the target number, which was all from the vaccine. Like they're making stuff up at this point. And that was actually, yeah, that was a self-correction. When I couldn't breathe, I punched back. It shows in the video, I punched back and I had popped them in the nose, instant reaction, fixation. And then they charged me with punching him in the nose, which was originally breaking his nose, but they changed it to punching him in the nose due to it not breaking actually.

deviated septum or whatever but yeah go ahead

Keith Malinak (01:04:18.515)
And are you saying you did or did not punch anyone in the-

I absolutely punched him in the nose because I couldn't breathe, but it was self-defense because I couldn't fucking breathe, you know? Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Okay so we got these seven charges here. Do we need anything else on this document or are we going to another?

Yeah, we're good. Good. Yeah, I have an audio here that I have pulled up.

On your end there. All right.

Lance Castle (01:04:44.59)
Yeah, my. This is a show your viewer base. This is my my commander here. And we can see he just hear his tone here everything. So let's see here.

What's the setting for this audio you're about to play?

Yeah, this is the court marshal of the judge asking him questions specifically. why did, or like, did he schedule me a TTM before my arrest? Did you think the TTM was, needed? Obviously he has to say yes to that. Cause if he said no and he's scheduling TTMs, which are team treatment meetings, that would be a abusive authority. and then she asks him, if you thought the TTM to be necessary, why didn't you have him be brought to his mental health meeting?

instead of to the confinement center. And he literally answers, he thought it was a done deal. His reason that he didn't bring me to my team treatment meeting that he scheduled for me in advance was cause he thought it was a done deal. Like retarded answers like that. Yeah.

Okay, so this is audio from the court martial.

Lance Castle (01:05:47.734)
Yes, sir. Okay. Time stamp is carry super. Well, before I even say that though, also they, announced on the stand that they changed my supervisor, starting carry, they changed my supervisor and all this stuff when it was revealed that they actually didn't. So they're lying under oath, which is perjury. Like these are the charges that I still, these are the allegations. I mean, that I had, I still need to file on them, but in order for me to do so, the IG department needs to declare like it's.

Authentic or my god, but they're in on it too. Like they're all just protecting everybody. It's freaking ridiculous Yeah, all right here we go we can just play this one to me if you can hear it, please

See you.

Keith Malinak (01:06:31.502)
You see an airman who is exhibiting irrational behavior and that's what you mental health is it's irrational. And then he tells you that he has irritability. tells you he has PTSD and he tells you he major depression. Whether you believe him or not, you see something that's not right. That's the irrational behavior. And then he tells you that there might be an explanation for it. Did you talk, and you didn't talk to JA when mental health told you that you shouldn't do a CDE?

Keith Malinak (01:07:02.478)
I didn't talk to legal. I don't think I did on that topic. I can't remember at this time. Okay. And as his behavior continued to be irrational, to escalate, you didn't go back.

Thank you.

Keith Malinak (01:07:20.174)
So they didn't even discuss that. You brought that up, bring that up a little bit.

Yeah, here's that for editing.

Keith Malinak (01:07:46.402)
And I think that you said you invited security forces and OSI to that because you had concerns about safety based on confrontational issues. That's what those are. Okay. But you believed that it was important to have the treatment team meeting. Yes. When security forces notified you that they picked him up at the gate, why didn't you ask them to deliver him to the treatment team meeting if you believe that was necessary?

this. I thought it was just a dumb deal, but he's arrested. just once that happened, I didn't make any more decisions after that.

Keith Malinak (01:08:30.905)
So when you return to the base, that the voice of the judge that we're hearing? And she's asking, what's his name?

Yeah, the female.

Lance Castle (01:08:41.9)
Lieutenant Colonel Vasquez in Regueva.

So were you allowed to roam freely after that once you got back to the base? Is that what she's trying to establish?

No, she's asking essentially what he scheduled me a TTM team treatment meeting, which is a meeting of your mental health provider, the commander, the first order to discuss, you know,

If that's necessary, why aren't you taking him straight to that, right?

Right. yeah. So I didn't even say I was on my way. So this is how they arrested me. I went, I was going to base for that meeting and then that whole meeting was a ploy. It was a complete conspiracy to set me up, to have me arrested at the gate and then bring me to confinement. So he's definitely abusing his authority on that.

Keith Malinak (01:09:27.872)
They lied to you that you were there for a mental health meeting when it was really okay. All right, where are we now on the...

So, wow, like we could have a whole three hour discussion on the court marshal alone, know, alone. So me jumping all over the place like this, I mean, it's necessary to be laconic here, but like, I just want you to know there's like six people that testify that all complete lies across the board. So after the court marshal, I was acquitted of all charges. Lo and behold,

Yeah.

Lance Castle (01:10:07.854)
I'm brought back to that same squadron and under that same squadron commander. My first sergeant now, is always first, so many first sergeants get swapped throughout this. But my first sergeant now tells me that the group commander, which is Colonel Barry Rose and the wing commander, Colonel Jeremy Bergen, he literally name drops them and tells me that they want me to go back to my squadron under my own career field so I don't.

feel reprised and retaliated against. So it's like not even sensible at this point. Does that make any sense at all?

They want you to...

just act like everything's fine now?

Yeah, and I have a little recording on that. This one's a minute. This is a Collins

Keith Malinak (01:10:56.792)
That actually plays out. All right. So now also the flip side up is that we did reach out to see if there is any ulcerative relocation for you to work. actually had a meeting with Colonel Rhoades earlier this week. We sat out and talked about it, including talk with CDE as well. We had mental health there. had the lead Jag. Colonel McGarvey was there as well to kind of discuss that. And long story short, Colonel Rhoades and Colonel Bird.

both decided for you to come back to the squad. Now again, I would say continue to work with Captain. So how are you feeling about that? Like, you like, hey, my life's getting back to normal? Or are you now mentally here?

All right, that's the deal on that. So there we go.

Lance Castle (01:11:41.932)
Yeah, it's to be continued. I knew, I knew this would start happening. The day I won my court martial, I told my fiance, I was like, I need to now be recording absolutely everything just in case it ever goes to a second court martial, which I never thought it would go to.

But it did. So just to be clear here, because we kind of glossed over this, in your court martial, what was the specific charge? then was it like a full acquittal? What exactly was determined by that court martial?

Keith Malinak (01:12:16.632)
seven charges that we went through that we were stunned by, you were acquitted of all of them. So, all right. So, I guess, is SOP, standard operating procedure, when that happens, now are you back in the good graces? Do you get the ranks? No, mean, no.

every single one.

Lance Castle (01:12:39.054)
not. Yeah, which is what's what's happening. get promises from the first certain saying there's no ill feelings. There's no ill will feelings from anybody. He says I have a clean slate. He says there's no harm, no foul. Like what you talking about? There's tons of harm and foul.

So how did the second court martial come about?

my gosh. my gosh. I don't even know. So you just want to jump straight to

Oh, I'm sorry. so where are we in the story then? Okay, so you win the first court martial. What happens next?

Okay, so I just found this out. If you pull up 16, this is how, I don't even know a word more egregious than egregious, actually. So if you pull up 16, I just found this out a couple months ago. This was from my first court martial. And this is criminal action right here. Absolute criminal action. So these are my dispositions from the trial because I got denied what's it called? Bear County. I got denied with a job that I was applying for, correctionals officer.

Lance Castle (01:13:38.016)
If you scroll down, it shows my dispositions in blue from the first trial. Okay. And it shows not criminally prosecuted on for them. And for the assault charges, it says charges withdrawn and dismissed. Now why that is extremely inaccurate is because I was acquitted. Those should say full acquittals or acquittals or whatever. It's always the employer. It's just,

Yeah.

Keith Malinak (01:14:00.62)
So the judge makes a ruling. You're acquitted on all seven charges, but when the paperwork is filed, it doesn't say that you're acquitted. It just says that, you know what, we decided not to take it to trial.

Yeah, not currently prosecuted exactly means they didn't take it to trial and they prosecution dropped it and then charges and withdrawn dismissed shows it was brought and then they dropped it mid trial or something.

And you had no idea that they had lied on this paperwork until you went to get a job a couple of months ago and this came back on the background check at that job.

Exactly from the FBI CG CJ is division at the very top it shows it Yeah, this is heinous because guess who guess whose responsibility it is to submit accurate dispositions It's the SJA team of which I'm sure they have Recommendations from the command like what this was this was purposeful. This was malicious because if it wasn't it should be

Because they knew at some point in the future this would come back to bite you anyway.

Lance Castle (01:15:03.81)
right. And I'm still putting all the pieces together because my security clearance after the first trial never gets reinstated. And they said it's due to my mental health account or treatment at the LRTC facility in San Antonio, which is lie. I look, I look that up. They can't revoke your security clearance off of, you know, going to an outpatient facility. Yeah. So this is a lot of, a lot of corruption, a lot.

What file is the next one you would like me to open sir?

Yeah, so. my gosh, yeah, this is nuts. So I need to set this up. So now I go to lower Ridge Treatment Center in San Antonio, Texas, which I have the recommendations of my command. Like I'm put back in the same squadron, by the way, with my same commander who I have three meetings with and his discontent for the judges verdict. Is apparent, I actually want to play that. So now I'm at lower Ridge and.

The therapist and I, it was an 11 week outpatient process. She and I decided to secretly record this now TTM with Vasquez. Again, like this Vasquez character. Let's see here. And I want your reaction on what you think of this real fast. You have any questions so far actually?

No, so you were forced to go through this 11 week treatment, is that right?

Lance Castle (01:16:26.766)
I was a and I volunteered for it.

Okay, okay. Your therapist is suggesting you record a conversation with this commanding officer Vasquez.

Yeah, that she's about to have with him. she. Yeah. And I'm in the room too. So it's not like secret, but here check this out. And at this point, my record of trial for my first trial has not been released yet. So the audios, anything has not been released. And this is three months after the trial now, three months after the trial, you got, you got a glimpse of what my commander sounds like on the stand. You know, he was like, Oh, I don't know. It was a done deal. I don't recall. Um, like a lot of, I don't know. It right.

He's having it with him. I got you.

Lance Castle (01:17:07.786)
So now, look how confident he is when he's speaking with the...

Yeah, and I understand that sir, but with all due respect, I mean, I think the situation is kind of different. know, castle is kind of a different circumstance, considering that, you know, he was put under investigation or, you know, if I'm not understanding was by you, one of, you know, and he has to work complete like directly under you. and that creates this kind of dynamic as unless this is, mean, other have other service members gone through this.

No? Yeah. I mean, I understand that, right? But that is the consequences of the decisions that he made, right? I understand that during his court martial he was found not guilty, right? But what the judge decided, her reasoning, that is no where, I don't know what was her reasoning. It could have been, hey, Castle deserves another opportunity.

So maybe that's why she said he's not guilty. I don't know, right? Like there's no records. We do not get access to anything, any of the reasoning that the judge had. The reason why he's in the position that he's at is based on the consequences of his decisions, right? So, and then there's a mental health piece to it, right? Like this whole treatment piece that he's...

Yeah, so that's about that. And that's like an hour and 30 minute conversation that I just showed two minutes of so you can imagine, can imagine what happens in that conversation.

Keith Malinak (01:18:38.03)
So you're still being punished by the system, even though you're not guilty.

And I got like a scopelatory evidence like this that I'm being reprised against due to him admitting to my therapist that I should not have been, or he's implying I should not have been found not guilty because he's saying we got no documents. But now that the audio is released from the first quarter, it shows all of his contradictions, which are lies. Like this guy is trying to, and he says, I'm a manipulative with no credibility when really he's the one who's trying to manipulate everybody with zero credibility. That's why I call him sanctimonious.

later on and get charged for that actually.

know okay so where we at on the document.

So before we move on to the final chapter here, so above Vasquez, his boss is Roche, who I already brought up, Barry Roche. We also have a T-Team with him the month after, and it's even worse. It's even worse because in this meeting he has his SEL, which is a senior enlisted leader, Chief Jessica Baldwin, who becomes my supervisor, like around March of 2024.

Lance Castle (01:19:43.542)
when it was declared in the court martial that my supervisor was changed from Kerry, right? Like it's all lies and it's all provable. so yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna play this one. And it's probably one of the last recordings, but this one's with Colonel Roche. And again, I'm asking him questions about, or, they're asking me questions like, what's the plan when I come back from this lower rich room and go back to the squadron again, what is the plan? You know? And, I want to get your two cents on this. Once you hear this real fast. Okay.

Lance Castle (01:20:15.973)
Yeah, 748. Yeah, so I'm about to see, this is how long it can get, you know.

It's so hard to explain this in like 10 minutes if I had to.

I understand. You lived, you lived a hell for what? How many years? Several years. So, and trying to condense it into a story may not be the easiest assignment here.

All right, here it is right here.

yeah, sorry.

Lance Castle (01:20:45.934)
It's kind of Roche, the group commander, who's in charge of the squadron commander Vasquez and his, my supervisor, who's going to actually now be my supervisor, Chief Baldwin, who's his, his like assistant.

Keith Malinak (01:21:06.433)
Remover.

Lance Castle (01:21:20.014)
I'm gonna jump around.

because of his history of confinement and how that went too. So I can understand that as well.

was the primary focus of any...

because

Lance Castle (01:21:35.566)
Anybody's good?

Lance Castle (01:21:41.998)
So we got the chief ball in stating that.

I'm still punishing you for not taking the COVID-vax. I mean, they're essentially saying we still can't have him around other people.

Yes.

Lance Castle (01:21:56.526)
Yeah, and then I asked Roche about the active shooter stuff and you're not gonna believe his answer in this and this is the last part right here

Again, for those that may be just joining us, when the refusal to take the COVID VACs started to turn against Lance's commanders, then they made up these charges that you are an anti-government threat, active shooter possibility. And then you got this audio here.

Lance Castle (01:22:51.47)
think my pep and another separate supervisor, Texas and Cleveland wrote that it's been stated to her that I've been targeting members within my squadron that have been in communication with leadership or have crossed me. So there's pretty much trying to paint this picture that I'm like essentially out to kill people now. And this was a couple of days before they was arrested and detained for three months in jail.

Did you wear any of that? Um, Carl Roche.

Keith Malinak (01:23:25.164)
But.

Keith Malinak (01:23:32.283)
Okay.

Keith Malinak (01:23:36.002)
Hold on. Hold on. There's a lot of paperwork. And he apparently isn't taking the fact that you were a possible active shooter seriously enough to even be what? Told that? Or care about that?

Yeah.

Lance Castle (01:23:54.254)
because he's complicit from the first trial Vasquez pretty much had to have his permission on paperwork to go over the charges and he signed it like they all signed it up to the wing commander at the time before

paperwork, Lance. Maybe you're an active shooter possibility. Maybe you're not. don't know. Details. Okay.

The answer, one of his answers was he was, I said, are you aware of any of that? He said, not all of it or not all of it, but I'm sorry, not what are your, I wrote it down aware of not a lot of it, but some of it or something like that.

Yeah, and you think that would stick out. yeah, Lance is the guy we thought might shoot up the place. Yeah, you might remember his name and might remember that charge. Okay.

All right. then, he, so let me see.

Keith Malinak (01:25:04.046)
Thanks.

Lance Castle (01:25:08.814)
Absolutely.

Keith Malinak (01:25:22.508)
for multiple people.

Keith Malinak (01:25:47.434)
Hold on, hold on. You can pull that audio down just a little bit when you're playing it. But my question is, were you not, is this, is he referencing when you were told to take leave or stay at home or?

So there is this time that I stopped coming to my duty location because I already aware of everything that's happening. The hostile work environment. I didn't mention their text messages were subpoenaed for the trial and it showed they're making me go to, they're trying to have me go to all these meetings with Carrie, who I explicitly stated I cannot be around due to my blood pressure being around 180 around him. And he's just lying through completely. They're setting me up for more paperwork. Captain Lawrence admits on the stand that he didn't

He didn't find any of my diagnoses real or he thought I was exaggerating and being hyperbolic. yeah. So just tons of contradictions like that. So he's referring to me not being at my duty location when I was at the chaplain, stuff like that. when I wasn't because of the hostile work environment that they were doing, like, like literally declaring me an active shooter inside, like what

wow. Yeah.

Lance Castle (01:26:55.214)
Like, I don't know what was gonna happen if I did go to my duty location. But anyway, the judge was the one who had purview of all this, right? And she declared me not guilty due to the whole investigation that she did behind the scenes also in her chambers. But the thing is, this is three months. This audio is three months after my trial. And like you just hear him. He's like, you have a lot of paperwork. There's a lot of things that weren't considered in the court martial, like.

Huh.

Lance Castle (01:27:22.668)
Yeah, that is not a clean slate that I was promised. And with the job position that was promised to be moved to squadrons to the ops group of which ends up being denied when I go back to my squadron. So yeah, we're now we're in January, February, 2024. And that becomes denied that job position that they promised me in the audio here. That's all on my YouTube channel. That like it was a lie. I think it was to set me up again for them to have, you know, access to me, I guess.

And yeah, it gets crazy from there. That's everything I just explained was pretty much chapter one.

And so in that timeline, that's where your commander denies your, what, your informal Article 138, redress for our seat. Well, explain to those of us not in the military, what's that process supposed to be?

Yeah, so article 138 complaint as you submitting a complaint legally like a legal complaint on your commander for established wrongs grievances that you have, know, and in there you're

for you to go up the chain, right? To look for, okay.

Lance Castle (01:28:32.31)
Yep. And in that article one 38, man, I lay into them. I lay into them bad. I tell, say that Roche could have done something about it. He did nothing about it. I put all my concerns in there, including the audio that I just played and Vasquez denies it illegally denies it. he's denied the article one 38 complaint, which is fine because I could progress it up the chain, which I do. And then the next person denies it, which is general calmly of Afsoc.

It's a nice one.

Lance Castle (01:29:02.158)
Lieutenant General Michael Connelly, like, did he even read it? I doubt it. my gosh. So it just stuck right there, you know? And then I got to redo an IG complaint. is, yeah, until I finally get somebody like the undersecretary of the Air Force, which is Matthew Lohmer, or the undersecretary of defense, Anthony Tata, who I emailed him and all my stuff and all my complaints and they haven't even responded back yet. I emailed them too, until someone like that, you know.

Messaged me back, or emailed me back, like, hey, what's going on with all this stuff? And like, there's just, no one wants to look into it. I don't understand.

So while this is happening, after you're getting rejected with your Article 138 complaint, this is when you what? Go to social media and then what happens?

This is when my sub construction video starts to become public because I it to Mark and I got 6.4 million views until this date.

You posted this.

Keith Malinak (01:30:02.19)
How did I miss this until December of 2025? All right, somewhere in April of 2024. And so did you, is that your first, I guess, foray into social media around all of what's happening here is the post of that video of you? Who recorded that video? And were they on your side? How did you get a hold of that?

So it's AFI, Air Force Instruction, for it to be recorded. So if they didn't record it, it would have been unlawful. Like in their regulations, it states that another security force member has to record the whole thing. So he was one of them, obviously. Yeah, and I got it from the trial. I got all the evidence from trial. And I looked at everything, you know? Yeah, and it was in a CD.

and they get married.

Keith Malinak (01:30:46.254)
All right. And I know at some point along here, you're starting to be referred to as a Nazi. I mean, what is happening here?

insider threat, not Nazi specifically, but insider threat, continues. It continues insider threat.

Yeah, okay. Yeah, I thought I saw something in your notes. I must have misread it then. But okay. So then, then what happens because I know there's another court martial coming up here for you.

I'm gonna be real concise now. fast forward to, let's just, okay, to the end of May, Colonel Jeremy Bergen now issues a CDE for the first time, which is a commander directed evaluation, which is a mental health nine hour, nine hour interview. And you're doing tests and all that stuff to determine what are your diagnoses, you know, like what are his diagnoses? And this should have been done long ago. Vasquez denied it constantly. He wanted me to write him an MFR stating that I wanted it.

Like, I don't know why, but he didn't want, I don't know, he probably thought it was him retaliating towards me. But then the next intermittent commander after him, Major Abdawali, Nalisha Abdawali, she states that it was her that ordered the CDE when really it was Bergen. So anyway, I get this mental health evaluation. I am now diagnosed officially with delusional disorder. And delusional disorder definition is for me to believe all these things happening to me that other people around me.

Lance Castle (01:32:13.25)
completely can completely see that it's fictitious. So that would be the equivalent of like, you know, someone who has, who believes it has spiders crawling all over them and they're like this, you know, and other people are like, dude, you don't have spiders that delusional that's delusional, but I am diagnosed delusional because of my perceived persecutory type, statements, know, like, they're coming after me. And at this time to Vasquez, again, he writes me a LOC for more crap. He says I missed two medical appointments when again,

completely fictitious and like, no, I did not, but he's just writing more stuff again to create a paper trail and I can see what's happening. So delusional disorder, IED, intermittent explosive disorder, which is fair, sure. And unspecified trauma stressor related disorder, which is equivalent to PTSD symptomatic wise, other than the onset. doesn't matter. The sheiks, I have a phone call of this to the provider calling me and explaining it on my YouTube channel. I've written this in tons of emails, tons of complaints.

Give that YouTube channel.

Keith Malinak (01:33:17.378)
Castle 490, okay. Yeah.

So, so now I completely see what's going on there. These guys are setting me up to bring me to inpatient against my will and drug me up because in my results they state that I need medicated. need or I need to be medicated from my delusional disorder. my God, like everyone's so in on this and we have the records from the trial. have the audio recordings. Like no one listens to any of this. man, it's crazy. So

So yeah, and in June of 2024, they accuse you of being AWOL?

Yeah, so now the new commander, Colonel Barry Roche Leaves, the new one is Astort Churchill. This guy orders me... So first of all, everyone has ignored my CDE. You would think that delusional and IED and the other one, unspecified trauma.

And CD stands for.

Lance Castle (01:34:07.214)
Lender directed evaluation. So yeah, they all ignore it because I'm supposed to get a post TTM again from the conclusion of my results from the CDE. That never happens for a month and a half. It never happens. He orders me that he gives me new orders for work. You will report to work at seven to five, whatever, right? Uh, you get one hour lunch, but he does not account for anything of my diagnoses. I record the conversation and I ask him.

Do you even know what my diagnoses are from the CD and all he knew was a IED. He's like, think IED. I was like, yeah, that's one, but he didn't know the rest. So now he's giving me unlawful orders because he has now shown me that he does. He's not aware of my mental health diagnoses, you know, like I don't understand. So not only that, and then he orders me to no longer be able to video record or audio record on base unless I have his explicit permission.

And that, yeah. But so that goes back to what we were discussing earlier, right, where the state law applies there, but unless there's a specific order preventing.

right of which he then admit on the stand that he thought I was recording and posting a video thing to social media for my own protection. So it's not like I was doing it to be defiant or rebellious. Yeah, it's a lot of contradictions. So at this point I'm like, I cannot go on a base anymore because I'm being set up to be rearrested or brought to inpatient. So I texted the, um, the wing commander, which are in the documents, but we're running out of time. And I told him, sir, like you guys are retaliating me against me. mean,

There's no way I can go back to base unless my TTM happens, you know, all that stuff. And he's in on it too. I'm telling you like this, like I just keep going to their, oh man, it's like a criminal mastermind chain. So anyway, after two weeks, the cops come to my house, arrest me of which I'm compliant. goodness for. Yeah, this is July 19th now of 2024. And I'm brought to a civilian jail in Portales, New Mexico for a month, over a month actually.

Keith Malinak (01:36:03.85)
And when is this arrest?

Lance Castle (01:36:16.258)
I get abrupt stoppage of all my medications, blood pressure medications. I didn't even mention that in the first one. They completely abruptly my medications or abrupt stopped my medications back then. Like PTSD stuff as well. pro pro prozac prozocin, my blood pressure medication, like lisinopril. You can die from that. That could be fatal. If you just completely stop in someone's blood pressure medication, or at the very least make them feel, you know, irritable of which is why that cell extraction happened.

Yeah, well, I didn't even like I'm going back to that now, but that subtraction, they stated that it was to shock me into compliance. So that was how it was deemed unlawful. You can't do a subtraction to shock someone into compliance. Yeah, they stated in the paperwork, it was all from me being a non-compliant, flipping my furniture, the bed around and stuff like that. So fast forward back to where we're at now. I'm in pretrial confinement once again for eight and a half months now, not 66 days anymore.

in the county jail.

So a month and half in there and then they find me to a brig, a military brig in South Carolina.

I guess I'm trying to figure this out. I don't understand how the local authorities get involved in this matter. Is that just the bait knocking on their door saying, we don't want this guy around here. Can you put him in here for a while?

Lance Castle (01:37:30.776)
Yeah.

Keith Malinak (01:37:40.238)
If this military brig is something, is this, where are we at? Moncks Corner, South Carolina?

I'm in Charleston, South Carolina. I get phoned back to...

They still live right near there, so go ahead.

I get flown back from my arraignment, one day arraignment from my new judge. Man, this guy, Major Nathan Ruor, he's now Lieutenant Colonel, the Colonel Jeremy Bergen, the Wing Commander. He's now been promoted to Brigadier General. Like everyone's being promoted left and right for their heinous crimes. So this guy lacks complete due diligence, the judge, in my arraignment. And I'm still to this day sorting and transcribing and reviewing because believe it or not, there's transcribe or there's errors in the transcribe. Here's a quick example.

the wing commander states on trial that my mental health provider was threatened by me. But in the transcribe, it says something completely different. It says, it doesn't even make sense. It's like he felt the right counsel to, instead of it saying, instead of it saying his mental health provider was threatened by him, it says, whatever I just said, he felt the right to counsel to, like doesn't even make sense. So I don't know what the heck's happening with that.

Keith Malinak (01:38:49.536)
It's like a constant thing where paperwork doesn't match up with reality. All right. So you're in the rig there in Charleston. How long were you there awaiting?

So, there from September to end of March.

You're now incarcerated here for what six months? And we get to March of 2025. Now, surely at some point, you've got to think, hey, Donald Trump just got reelected. Surely this is going to end. It's going to end well for you, But we're at March 2025, and this is your second court martial time. Had you anticipated?

some sort of reprieve by now. So now you're going to court. This is over the AWOL stuff. I guess in April of 25, the ruling comes down and what happens?

Yeah. Um, well, can we pull up real fast? Number number, this is what I get charged for. Um, 21. Yeah. And this is, they tried me for the AWOL like we just mentioned, but again, I couldn't go on base due to them set me up. And there's even documents of them saying we looked into inpatient for him when I definitely didn't want to be an inpatient. And if we scroll down to page four,

Lance Castle (01:40:22.414)
If you'd like to read number four, I think your viewers would like this

On June 3rd, 2024, who's speaking here?

This is me, this is my article 130 complaint on this guy, that's Churchill over there. And the reason why his name popped up or his picture popped up is because I provided the link to this conversation and then that's the thumbnail to it, know? Because in trial, these prosecutors say that I literally pasted a copy of his face on there, but it was just from the link.

It's just a thumbnail. right. CDE stands for?

Commander directed evaluation actually before we hit number four. Can we go to number three that sets it up real fast?

Keith Malinak (01:41:00.812)
Okay, number three, how far up is that?

Yeah, keep going up. Keep going up, up, up,

My goodness, what are we looking at?

Yeah, don't worry about any of that. No, that's not it. Right there, right there, right there.

Can you this paragraph here?

Lance Castle (01:41:13.442)
Yeah, this is what I'm recharged for.

OK, so you tell me when to stop. various dates ranging from May 26, 2024 to present day, I have either copied you in an email to higher leadership or emailed you personally with higher leadership copied as well. On June 13, 2024, that Charleston Air Force Base Wing Commander and in New Mexico Air Force Base Wing Commander Colonel Jeremy Bergen schedules a last minute secret TTM

No no, where can and can't you

Keith Malinak (01:41:43.566)
for the next day secret due to my ADC not having knowledge of it with many demonic complicit leaders in attendance. All right. So you're labeling them demonic there. I see this TTM from my knowledge includes the reprehensible Colonel Churchill, the negligent past duty wing commander, Colonel Greer, other disgraceful commanders, such as the incompetent and inexperienced captain. Do I the atrocious and utterly deceitful flight commander from

Air Force Base, Mental Health Major Wiley, Major Oldman, the timid and unlawful group. You have nicknames for everyone. It's almost like Donald Trump here. Timid and unlawful group, SEL, Staff Master Sergeant Hunt. I don't know these words, bro. Vanglorious. I got to start mixing that in. And disrespectful group, Chief Commander or Chief Master Sergeant Marburg. The highly dishonorable and

Agnominus, Sergeant Ike. Thank you. Okay. And lastly, the trustworthy as of now, FSS First Sergeant Calhoun.

from my interest. With some of those adjectives there, the one that says, other commanders such as incompetent and experienced, Captain Abduali, I get found not guilty on that for some reason. I think it's because she showed literally she showed her incompetence on the trial on her testimony. And again, we can do a full podcast on their testimonies. Like these guys are going to be in big trouble because they literally perjured themselves on the stand. Yeah. And then we go to number four. And this is also what I was charged with.

All right. On June 3rd, 2024, I was told of my CDE results over the phone and the physical CDE results were later released to me. Major Wiley and Major Oldham were in that secret DTM scheduled by Colonel Jeremy Bergen that Colonel Churchill was in attendance for. With mental health present, every leader had all of my CDE findings readily available if discussed. If it was discussed, the prideful Colonel Churchill is the epitome of failed leadership. If it was not discussed, the pompous Colonel Churchill.

Keith Malinak (01:43:50.696)
is again the epitome of failed leadership. Did you want me to keep reading here? It is an absolute disgraceful and total failure of cannon air force base command via the nefarious and extremely corrupt wing commander Colonel Bergen, all of his sycophantic minions that call themselves leaders when in reality they are on the opposite end of the spectrum. And one of the biggest waste of taxpayers money is funding these vile, disturbed, highly corrupt, arbitrary, capricious, sanctimonious, lawless criminals. So

Hang on now, as I'm reading this, if this is handed into neutral hands and they see the way that you're describing your superiors, that doesn't seem to really help your case, Lance. Yeah. I just wonder if maybe emptying the thesaurus into this wasn't your best move, no?

Yeah, it probably wasn't because I was convicted of that disrespect currently if my appeal overturns it sure but you got to weigh in the context and all the history that like I'm fed up at this point.

Yeah, and I understand that and I understand, like for example, I am stunned by the restraint so many people in similar positions as you, I mean, this is very unique, especially for conversation on this program, but I see so many people that are treated so poorly by the system and by our government and

And I say to myself as I'm reading about them and watching interviews with them and talking to them, I'm thinking to myself, holy crap, I would not be able to restrain myself. And I would probably react in a very similar way that you did here, if not more so, if not more vociferously. See, we're going to mix in some more words here. for you being in the military and seeing this, I just, feel like in hindsight, and this is just me, and maybe you can tell me, are

Keith Malinak (01:45:49.122)
Do you regret some of the wording here and kind of compounding what you were already up against to begin with?

keyword was hindsight there, of course. Like I wrote this at two in the morning, like things were hitting the fan. Again, I'm diagnosed, they're treating the system, diagnosed me delusional disorder. Like what the, and I'm not even being accommodated for my delusional disorder. So I could have been more tactful and.

I'm not in your shoes. I'm not judging you. And like I said, I would probably even react more over the top. So I guess my question is, what did they find you guilty of in April of 2025? We're now well into the Trump administration and you're still going through process. What did they find you guilty on specifically?

We could pull it up 22 shows at all. I have literally nothing to hide here. Okay. Yeah. So to answer your question, I do not regret it. I don't because it's true. First of all, and not only so that was before I wrote that before they heavily perjured themselves on the stand for the second trial. So like this is I literally prove what they're acting like, you know, like lies across the board and their lies because they can't keep their story straight. And only I can understand.

like the level of sophistication that they've brought onto themselves with their testimony. And this is like, this is why we're gonna sit in the same.

Keith Malinak (01:47:08.686)
So how many charges are in this document that I'm scrolling through that was the judgment came down in April 2025 for charges? so I'm just I just quickly scrolled through the first three and I saw not guilty on all of them, correct? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. was your all right. So

no that was her play

Lance Castle (01:47:26.306)
And I was hoping the director would have found me to first have been extenuating. Okay, like let's say I called him all that and then it was found out, this is hypothetical, and it was found out that the one commander killed my fricking mom or something. Okay, am I still gonna be convicted of calling him completely incompetent and utterly corrupt if it was found out that he killed my mom? Probably not. And again, that's what I'm talking about. Like I'm using a drastic situation here.

I understand. So you're thinking that showing their incompetence or distortion of the facts or I guess record keeping might exonerate you at some point. Because I'm seeing here that the plea, the column, not guilty, but found guilty, it's across the board, huh?

Yeah.

Lance Castle (01:48:13.992)
This is Judge Royer. And again, there are different judges. different, like there's different police officers. There's good cops, there are bad cops, right? There's good people, there's bad people. There's high integrity people, high or not high. This judge is bad. This is bad. I'm dedicate 2026 to prove this. He like, I have all the evidence within the testimonies, within everything within my record of trial. Like he lacked due diligence. I wrote him a DODIG complaint before my trial. I wrote him a cease and desist, my own judge. Nobody does that.

And I asked my civilian defense attorney, Dan Conway, in all your 20 years, have you ever heard of anyone doing that? He's like, no, you're the first. So in 20 years, he's never had a freaking defendant write a judge a complaint before his trial. So the fact that I did that could show the perception of Judge Royer having a bias towards me. It's called judicial bias. And the answer is yes, he should have recused himself, which he did not.

Why were you moved to write him before the trial?

Because he condoned the unlawful pretrial confinement for eight and a half months. He should have released me like the first judge had. Yeah, but he didn't because he didn't look into any of the facts. He even admitted that he hasn't reviewed anything before their arraignment on September, 2023. Sorry, 2023, September. Oh, I messed up again. September 23, 2024. He even admitted that he hasn't reviewed any of the facts. So yeah, that's why. And it's a very detailed IG complaint.

and recused upset.

Lance Castle (01:49:42.336)
Here we will see the green pretty much are the people and my

the

So it is that was March. My appeal process is still almost like a two to three year appeal.

Yeah, well before you get to the appeal, want to point out that, correct me if I'm wrong, it looks like you lost your military benefits, including your VA eligibility. I mean, your retirement, all that stuff, I mean, out the window, huh? mean, because you got the...

It was already out the window from the first trial because I have to you have 20 years. I haven't even hit 20.

Keith Malinak (01:50:26.368)
Yeah. Okay. So, that was in April. And then what happened was you went to apply for that job and you saw that they didn't properly list you as being found not guilty at the first court martial. So, where does everything stand now, bro?

Yeah, so that's where we leave left off at to be continued. My appeal attorney has still not reviewed my record of trial. I had two appeal attorneys. I fired both recently. Um, yeah, I fired both due to one civilian attorney not wanting to touch IAC claims, which is ineffective assistance of counsel claims on my civilian attorney who he works for. So I have to fire him and have all the evidence of that. And I fired my military one due to her not even knowing what a RCM 917 motion is, which is lack of evidence.

from my first trial, explained those dispositions to her and she was like, well, they can do that. And I called in, she was completely wrong because I called another civilian attorney, Don King. And he was like, that's completely wrong. So this, her name's Captain Stanford Olga. And I looked at her Facebook. She literally has a post also that's like, hey, girlfriends, let's all vote Trump out. We can't have this guy reelected ever again. Like it was like, she's very political in that sense. But anyway, yeah, it should be continued.

Yeah, yeah, so you still have a fight ahead of you. Yeah, that's clear. And again, this all started because correct me if I'm wrong. As we established at the early part of the program, you your military career was going along just fine. You had the one blemish that really wasn't it was you what I guess doing a favor for a commanding officer, right?

someone that you answered to on changing a PT score. Other than that, it was clean 17, 19 years of service, right? And then the COVID Vax comes along, you refuse to get it. And then before you know it, your world is rocked and everything spirals out of control to the point where you're now dishonorably discharged and found guilty at a court martial for this disrespect stuff. And here we are now.

Keith Malinak (01:52:40.67)
So and then with that document that was uncovered on that background check by that employer, it shows that they probably did live up to a lot of those adjectives that you put in that paperwork. So I guess what's next for you now? mean, if you're not, you're technically still enlisted, yes? no?

Well, I am. I'm on the appeal at leave, which is still active duty and I'm still subject to the UCMJ. So.

Even though you dishonorably discharged, I don't understand how... Because you're pushing back on it, I got it. Okay.

It's pending, it's pending, it's a bad-

Cause it, I'm going through the appeals process. So even though it's pending, like, you know, I'm not, it's a non-pay status. So I'm on a pill at Lee, which is non-pay status, which is why I'm trying to find a job, but it's hard to, with that freaking false background check. Yeah. know, and I, not just that, that false background check is like falsified information. That's a huge crime.

Keith Malinak (01:53:36.078)
Right, right. And if the disarmable discharge remains intact after appeals, that will also show up on your background check, correct?

Right, right, of course. Yeah, of course. I'm rolling the dice here. I'm going all in. But how can my appeals be denied when I have concrete exculpatory evidence like perjury at this point of multiple commanders, literal perjury and tampering with evidence and falsified claims and documents like it's so much more egregious than what even we've discussed. And there's a lot. And I lose so much to the details.

You lose what?

Lose people to the details and it's hard to like, you know

Well, do this for me. Keep us updated and make sure that everyone knows your YouTube channel again. You said it's Lance Castle 4-9. What was it?

Lance Castle (01:54:29.806)
490. Yeah, 490.

Ants Castle 490. That's where you post your updates. And make sure you post those on Twitter as well. For nothing more just a selfish request because I hang out there more than anywhere. So man, I wish you the best and I'm so sorry that this whole thing spiraled because you made the choice that you didn't want this experimental drug injected into your body and they have made your life a living hell ever since. So

Do keep us updated again. Thank you for your service. I'm sorry that this is happening to you and I do hope that somehow some way things work out better than they seem to be going right now. The trajectory not looking good, huh?

Yeah, yeah, no, no, no trajectory looks great. Actually, like all the evidence I have will be. Yeah, and that's going to come with time because appeal brief is set for June. Whole systems backed up two years. It's a, it's a ridiculous. But if I win my appeal, I get back paid for the last two years. I get my rank back. I get like, it's like home run, you know, and that's what I'm doing.

You just need to get it hurt.

Keith Malinak (01:55:38.348)
Have any interest in getting back in the Air Force if this thing gets resolved?

I have no way. I'll be 21 years at that point, actually. But I plan on suing so many people involved in this via a Joinder civil lawsuit. And this is my new fight. I even have aspirations of wanting to at least go to law school, you know, with how much work I've done on my own case. Like, I'm learning way more things that I've ever known pertaining to law and court martial stuff. So it's very interesting. And if it never happened to me, I would never have wanted to do this. So in a way, I'm grateful.

I'm grateful for this. to go on shows like yours and explain the corruption at everyone. I zero fear about any of this stuff if they kill me due to this because not just ranks and careers are going to be ruined. My minimum goal for them is to be court martialed and that's coming. And when they're court martialed and if the day ever comes where they're actually sentenced to jail, what a day. Accountability has had, oh my gosh, yeah.

I wish you the best. all do. like you saw there, Sandra echoes my sentiments. We'll keep you on our prayers. Lance Castle, thank you so much for making time today. Please do keep us updated. Absolutely. And thank you all for joining us here on At the Mic. We will see you all 22 hours from now on the Friday live stream. Like I said, full house, gang will be here. And we'll see you then here live at 3 PM Eastern on X. Until then, please be safe, everybody. God bless.

Thank you for having me, sir.