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...weeks during the summer of 1970 Font was told to sit in his room and do nothing. He was allowed to write, read and type but not permitted to speak to anyone. His next assignment was to read and study the regulations of the Reserve Officers Training Corps for about two weeks. He was then ordered to add up columns of figures on machine tapes in his head and check the machine totals...
Finally, in hopes of keeping him permanently occupied, the Army assigned Font to inspect the barracks at Ft. Meade. Font inspected barracks from October 23 to January 25, 1971. It was while doing this that Font took three days off in December to participate in the Washington meeting of the Vietnam Veterans Commission of Inquiry with regard to war crimes...
...FONT submitted weekly reports on his findings in the Ft. Meade barracks and ended his examination with a 106 page report on the housing conditions. The report concluded that the barracks, built as temporary shelters in 1941, were "unfit for human habitation" and an "outrage to common human decency." Font claimed that they contained roaches and rats and that the temperature of the hot water was 38 degrees. Cases of influenza and ringworm were common. Font included 85 statements from enlisted men and officers who complained of poor plumbing facilities, broken windows and holes in the barracks' walls...
...January 21, Font went to First Army Headquarters at Ft. Meade to deliver a copy of his barracks report to Lt. General Jonathan P. Seaman, commanding general of the First Army at that time...
...While Font was in the Headquarters waiting room he was seen by Major General Richard G. Ciccolella, First Army chief of staff. According to Font, Ciccolella rushed toward him saying, "You're not supposed to be here. I don't want anything of yours." Ciccolella then grabbed him by the shoulders and pushed him out the door, shouting "Get the hell out of here!" The general then called the military police to arrest Font...