I told her that the appearance of conflict between my command authority and his spouse's HOA harassment activity against my own residence created an operational ethics concern that needed quiet examination before any further command action. Colonel Reinhome listened. She said one sentence. Sir, AFOSI Detachment 803 has been quietly tracking unusual basic allowance for housing flow patterns at Sentinel Ridge Estates since April of 2024. Six FE Warren residents, all currently or formerly assigned to your operations directorate, are paying above market rents at Sentinel Ridge while drawing maximum BAH aotment.
We have not had a predicate to formally open the investigation. I asked her what she needed. She said, "Sir, I need either a written complaint from a Sentinel Ridge resident or an overt act by the development principles that involves the Air Force in a misuse of authority. Either would activate the joint ethics regulation investigation pathway. I told her I would not interfere with her timing.
I told her I would not relocate the F250. I told her, in fact, that I would continue to park the F250 visibly in my own driveway on every Saturday morning for the foreseeable future. Colonel Reinholm smiled slowly, the kind of smile a federal investigator smiles when a future predicate act has just become inevitable. She said, "Sir, understood." She stood up.
She walked out of my office. She closed the door behind her. For the next six weeks, I drove the 2009 F250 to every weekend errand I had to the Cheyenne Saddler Hay and Feed on Saturday mornings, to the Sentinel Ridge Estates entrance gate on the way to take my father to the Cheyenne VA Medical Center for his Tuesday neurology follow-ups to the Federal Courthouse on Capitol Avenue on Friday afternoons. When I drove Marray home from the bench, the truck was visible. The truck was, in the technical language of HOA newsletters, an eyes sore inconsistent with community visual standards.
The truck was, in the actual language of property law, a privatelyowned, properly registered, fully insured motor vehicle parked on Callaway family land. Briany Pendergast filed her second letter in early December of 2024. It was longer. It was angrier. It cited an updated community boundary survey that, according to the letter, had been filed with the county in October of 2024.
The survey, the letter claimed, had identified my driveway as within the visual buffer zone of Sentinel Ridge Estates community common areas. There was no such survey on file with the Laram County Recorder. I checked the same Tuesday afternoon. In January of 2025, Brian E. Pendergast filed her third communication.
This one was not addressed to me. It was addressed to the FE Warren Air Force Base public affairs office in care of Major Caleb Yanick, the wing public affairs officer. The communication requested that the base commander address the ongoing inappropriate vehicle storage situation at the property located at the eastern boundary of Sentinel Ridge Estates community. Major Yanick brought me the letter at 0745 on a Tuesday morning. He had read the letter.
He had not yet identified the property in question. I told him to identify the property. He returned to my office at 0910 that morning with a tax assessor map. He said, "Sir, the property in question is your home address." I told him I knew.