President Donald Trump on Wednesday pardoned a former junior Army officer who was found guilty in a 2022 court-martial of violating orders to comply with COVID-19 safety measures, a White House official confirmed to Military.com.

Former 1st Lt. Mark Bashaw, who served as an entomologist at the Army Public Health Center at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, was convicted on two counts of violating lawful orders for refusing to telework, submit a negative COVID-19 test and wear a mask indoors, part of the installation's requirements at the time for unvaccinated service members.

The military judge who presided over the trial, Col. Robert Cohen, declined to punish Bashaw, but the former officer -- who had been a noncommissioned officer in the Air Force before joining the Army -- said that he was discharged from the military in 2023 following his sentencing.

"I just received a presidential pardon from President Donald J. Trump," Bashaw said on social media Wednesday. "I am humbled, grateful, and ready to continue fighting for truth and justice in this great nation."