In addition to missing statues, changing of the seal, I have knowledge that Mike Mahoney was forced to resigned from the Alumni Association because he answered questions from parents about the lack of uniforms for Cadets. This caused a scathing letter written by the President of MMA to the Alumni Association, about Mike. In turn, prior to a scheduled Alumni meeting, the Association asked Mike to a private Zoom where he was told either resign or they would vote him out. He was given no notice and no due process.
The parents were told the truth by Mike: the shortage of uniforms was due to the firing of Jim Callan, Follet Inc Bookstore employee (on MMA campus) who had been successfully coordinating the issue of gear and sea bags for 8 years with zero issues.
The president received an outlandish complaint that Jim took pictures of Cadet at graduation. The President interfered and facilitated the firing of Callan even after he was exonerated of the silly claim he took a picture of a cadet who has divorced parents. Turns out it was a lie and the divorce highly volatile. JIm Callan did nothing wrong. Exoneration wasn’t good enough for the President who interfered causing Callan to be fired from the bookstore, which left no experienced bookstore employee to take over with the issuing of uniforms.
Callan was a mentor to many Cadets over the years. Donated his time and money for MMA, jumped in the canal to raise money. One Cadet in particular, an autistic student, with a 3.9777 GPA ,wrote a change.org petition asking for an investigation on the lack of discipline at the Academy due to a new upper admin hire, Shannon Finning, and the firing of Callan. The Cadet was forced to resign, his phone taken and searched, he was threatened he would be given a negative report if he tried to go to another college (against FERPA rules).
He is 19, has a twin brother at MMA and both raised by a single parent after the father left when the twins were 18 months. The Cadet in question was a sophomore regimentally with no prior discipline but academically a junior due to advanced coursework. When the petition was found the Cadet was forced off the academy ground just prior to a hurricane. The Cadet was interrogated without due process and grilled if Jim Callan or another adult bookstore employee helped him write the petition. They did not.
JIm was fired in the first week of August. On August 25, 2021 the Cadet resigned under pressure and Jim Callan was no trespassed with no report filed at the campus police, the same day, the other bookstore employee was discipline and threatened to be fired.
Additionally, Jeff Hagopian, Captain and MMA grad , instructor at the Naval Warfare College, was on campus for a seminar about the sinking of a ship, had a conversation with a Trustee about a safety issue. The Trustee told him he better not talk about that subject again or it would be bad for him. Hagopian was no trespassed within then week. The trustee did not report to the police which would be the proper venue if he was in fact “put in fear” by a mere conversation. Instead he contacted his subordinate, the President, Hagopian was no trespassed from MMA.
These issues all surround free speech. How I was involved: In July 2021, Jim Callan wore a thin blue line patch on his MMA button up shirt as he had for 5 years. A female Cadet and foreign student made a complaint about the thin blue line flag since Callan was participating in an MMA video about uniform fittings. The President had the thin blue line flag erased technically from the film. When students of law enforcement found out they told their parents, who told me. The thin blue line flags had been sold in the bookstore for years.