Jonathan Pentland is a U.S. Army sergeant first class stationed at Fort Jackson near Columbia, South Carolina. His military resume includes time with 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson in Colorado, and the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division at Fort Drum in New York. At least six years of service in the Army are typically required to become a sergeant first class, though many soldiers at this rank have more than 15 years of military service behind them. Pentland has sacrificed a not insignificant part of his life for this country—and yet the military, along with the Richland County Sheriff’s Department and the Black Lives Matter mob, have turned his life upside down.