Concise Version To a Significant Injustice

My name is Lance Castle. I am active duty in the U.S. Air Force currently on appellate leave in San Antonio Texas, with my fiancé and our two young sons (ages 1 and 3).

1.) I was fully acquitted of all charges in my first court-martial in September 2023. After I submitted a religious accommodation request and refused the COVID-19 vaccine, my command ruthlessly targeted me to make an example out of that defying orders (to include unlawful orders) is something that you don’t want to try with the chain of command.

2.) Despite official Air Force (SECAF) guidance in Feb 2023 directing the removal of ALL adverse actions taken solely due to COVID vaccine refusal, prejudicial labeling remained in my records and was later used against me. I was labeled an “insider threat” from my very own chain of command, to include a “potential active shooter,” falsely alleged to be “targeting members within the squadron,” and “radicalized towards an anti - U.S. government group.”

3.) After my full acquittal from the Honorable Judge Vicki Marcus, I was immediately placed right back into my same squadron and same commander who charged me, and done so via the wing commander and group commander’s decision (told to me from my 1st Sgt that I too fully audio recorded and posted for full transparency). Fast forward, and I am now ordered to no longer be able to audio record on base anymore even though recording conversations had become essential for my protection after the literal false and fabricated charges from my squadron commander Lt Col Enrique Vazquez via trial one, of which the new group commander testified in my second trial that he believed my need to audio recorded all encounters and the posting of them was for my protection, (implying not out of defiance or rebellion). Despite the full acquittal, my command and the Staff Judge Advocate (Lt Col Sean McGarvey) falsified the judge’s official verdict (dispositions), changing both of my assault specifications from “acquitted” to “withdrawn & dismissed” and my other 4 alleged charges from “acquitted” to “not criminally prosecuted.”

4.) These criminally falsified dispositions came to my attention in Oct 2025, that are still actively blocking me from better paying employment to include Bexar County Sheriffs Office as a CO and now potentially with the San Antonio Police Department despite already passing all of the initial testing requirements.

5.) As a father trying to provide for my family, I have been forced into low-paying jobs that require minimum background checks, just for my family and I to survive month by month of which I use as fuel and motivation to pursue aggressively with reviewing my own evidence as I wait the 1.5 year initial process to just “finally begin” the appeals process with my military attorney who is incredibly backed up himself in an insurmountable log jammed appeals process as is.

6.) Last year I received over $7,500 to help me retain civilian appeals attorney Frank Spinner. While that money was intended for legal help, I had to use a significant portion for rent and basic survival for my family after again being repeatedly turned down job opportunities due to the falsified records mentioned above. As of late April 2026, I have since been able to be hired for a temporary night shift low paying job that is hardly enough to meet monthly rent requirements with utilities combined, but I remain grateful for being hired and receiving income once again as I seek better paying employment for my

family as we weather the storm for this one in a lifetime upcoming appeals process opportunity.

7.) We are now trying to raise a final $9k to finally move forward with the professional legal help needed and to get us back stably with rent and utilities.

8.) Breakdown:

• $7,500 – Retainer for attorney Frank Spinner to handle my appeal and correct my falsified records.

• $1,500 – To help catch up on rent and utilities so my family does not fall further behind.

9.) Key issues include:

• My first court-martial acquittal was deliberately falsified in official records.

• For my second trial, I was arrested and held on fabricated “desertion” charges. However, I was never charged with desertion in the formal preferral of charges from Col Stuart Churchill. The disposition later falsely listed “desertion – not criminally prosecuted,” as this shows as my only arrestable offense for my background check results.

• In my first trial, Lt Col Enrique Vazquez charged me with disrespect for allegedly calling him a “domestic threat.” Little did he know, I was secretly recording the entire meeting of which that audio was authenticated in court. It overtly exposed the criminally fabricated nature behind the charge.

• During my second trial, Security Forces Officer Dedrick Kelly (one of the alleged assault victims) testified under oath that he would be “shocked” if he learned I was being charged with assaulting him — because “he did not touch me,” implying prosecution never interviewed him prior to trial and most egregiously, prior to the alleged charge.

• During my second trial, Wing Commander Col. Jeremy Bergin admitted under oath that he had never met me, despite my repeated attempts to meet with him in person. He then testified that he had directed the group commander Col. Barry Roche in an email, to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Lt Col Enrique Vazquez. Just three hours after his testimony, Bergin emailed his prosecutor retracting his statement, claiming he was “mistaken” and that no inquiry had ever occurred despite his in-depth recollection under oath into the details behind his “directing the group commander to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Vazquez.” This false testimony was never corrected from Bergin himself, his corrupt prosecution team, or my very own defense attorneys Tirado and Dan Conway (that they could have easily used at this point to impeach him). I discovered this evidence

a year later through my current military appellate attorney.

10.) Not only did my defense team not preserve this retraction email as an appellate exhibit, they also hid it from me in its entirety, to include not even bringing to my attention during the remaining 2 days left of my 4 day trial. This false and perjured testimony of Bergin was left to stand as FACT during my remaining trial that Judge Major Nathan Royer clearly turned a blind eye to. Bergin then proceeded to state in his impact statement, during my now sentencing phase (immediately post conviction) the following:

-“I have watched Lance Castle's behavior drive tens of thousands of unnecessary man-hours over fictitious allegations.”

(Again that he testified underoath he had investigated… then retracted his statement that he was mistaken and that no preliminary inquiry happened, failed to make sure his false testimony was corrected… and THEN actually have the audacity to label my allegations as fictitious… that he hadn’t investigated??)

- “There were many under my command who carried significant stress and fear that he would one day show up and make good on his promise of holding those who he believed wronged him accountable.”

-“Even my family was concerned that he might one day show up to our house on base seeking a confrontation.”

-“I hold no malice for him, his family, loved ones, or supporters but cannot help to think of the harm caused to all those impacted by his delusions, weaponization of various processes for personal gain, and use of hyperbolic language and the shield of religion to manipulate his fellow Airmen.”

11.) With that said, I have nearly 150+ significant pertinent audio recordings documenting command misconduct and contradictions that I am still transcribing and reviewing till this day of which includes a significant amount of text messages with various leaders in the chain of command and hundreds of emails that I supplied my defense team with while in pretrial confinement that they both remained apathetic to which will now constitute as serious Ineffective Assistance of Counsel claims (IAC).

12.) Thank you for the chance to correct a record that was deliberately falsified originating from the CV-19 mandate and to keep my family afloat during this very trying time while we fight for accountability and justice. Every donation brings us one step closer to fixing this nuclear bomb of perpetual issues from a corrupt base filled with corrupt leaders and will tremendously help with the rebuilding of me and my family’s life.

13.) I will never quit, back down, or surrender. I will relentlessly pursue a joinder criminal lawsuit against the insurmountable illegal actions of my chain of command to include all complicit once my appeals process is successful.

Please view my YouTube channel, X, and Instagram account for updates with this legal fight @LanceCastle490

Attachments in order:

1.Frank spinner receipt of costs/fee

2.Insider threat

3.Active shooter

4.Targeting members

5.Preferral of charges - court martial #1

6.EOJ - Judge Col Vicki Marcus

7.Article 15/NJP - Col Stuart Churchill

8.Preferral of charges - court martial #2

9.EOJ - Judge Maj Nathan Royer

10.Court Martial #1 falsified dispositions to the FBI-CJIS division

11.Cannon AFB Wing Commander Col Jeremy Bergin's "witness impact statement"

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Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; ensure justice for those being crushed. Yes, speak up for the poor and helpless, and see that they get justice.

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Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them.