#174 Joshua Mast - U.S. Marine's Message to President Donald Trump
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Who is Major Joshua Mast and why is he in the news?
Joshua and Stephanie Mast, welcome to the show.
It's good to be here. Yeah, Sean, we really appreciate you having us.
Man, you guys have one hell of a story here and very complicated. Doing the best I can. We're going to cover all of it. It's probably going to be a long show, but... You know, even though nobody knows what we're about to talk about just yet, I just want to say, like, man, you guys are, like, such honorable people doing what you're doing. And I'm really excited to do this and to get this out into the world. So thank you guys for what you're doing, and thank you for being here. We really appreciate it.
I mean, honestly, we feel blessed to have been a part of this. Like, we're very proud of it. And we'd like to put the spotlight on some people who've made it happen along the way. Regular Americans doing their thing at the ground level, and it's really about them.
Awesome. Awesome. Well, everybody gets an introduction, so... Major Joshua and Stephanie Mast. Major Joshua Mast, you're a United States Marine Judge Advocate General with a law degree from Liberty University and currently assigned as the Assistant Operations Officer, Marine Raider Support Group, Marine Special Forces Operation Command. You've served as a civil law attorney, trial counsel, and prosecutor. You deployed to Afghanistan in 2019 and worked in the Resolute Support Headquarters Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, where your portfolio responsibilities included targeting, collateral damage estimation, and civilian casualty response. You are married to Stephanie, who is a graduate of Thomas Edison State University and has master's degrees from Liberty University and the Academy of Art, University of San Francisco, California. Most importantly, you invest your time raising your five children, ages 13, 10, 6, 5, and 4. And I think you guys said downstairs you've been married for 18 years? Years. Congratulations.
And it's because of the love you have for one of your children that you're here with us today. So before we move on, a couple caveats and disclaimers. Before we begin, we need to make some important clarifications. Josh, can I call you Josh or do you prefer Joshua? Sure, it's fine. You're an active duty Marine Corps officer. You can clarify if you are speaking on, can you please clarify if you are speaking on behalf of the Marine Corps, Special Operations Command, SOCOM, or the Department of Defense?
No, obviously this is just my personal opinion, our perspective on what's happened over the last few years in our life. And then normally I wouldn't even associate with MARSOC, but they've recently acknowledged that I'm a member of the command. So that allows us to be here and be able to acknowledge that today.
Okay. What are the limitations on what you both can say in this interview due to classification, operational security, and or ongoing legal matters?
Okay, so obviously we can't go into classified information. A lot of what we're going to talk about has been declassified and authorized for release into the public domain. So we will talk about that portion of it. And then as far as ongoing legal matters, the only thing we're not going to do is some of the Afghans we've been in other litigation with, We're not allowed to identify those people to third parties or where they're from or where their families are from. And so we're not going to do that. It's really not even the focus of today. And then there's a restriction from commenting on some of the state court proceedings. So we're not going to talk about what's happened in the state court.
But what we are going to focus on today is there was a recent board of inquiry at MARSOC that I went through in October. And then for the first time, that was actually a blessing in disguise for us because for the first time we had some due process rights to information that we've been asking for for years. And it could be discretionary denied before if it was in a civil case. But in this case, because they was putting your career on the line, they had to give you at least some of that information. And so a lot of this is going to focus on the Board of Inquiry and then a little bit on some government misconduct.
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