on april 13, 2010, the united states army announced that it would court-martial lt. colonel terrence lee lakin, an osteopathic physician and surgeon in the army medical corps, for refusing to report for deployment to afghanistan. lakin asserted that obama was not a u.s. citizen, was not legally the commander-in-chief and, therefore, lacked the authority to send him to afghanistan. the military revoked lakin's pentagon building pass and confiscated his government-issued laptop computer. lakin was assigned to walter reed army medical center while awaiting trial.