Question by H J: Are you aware of our American female military Rape victims ?
Transcript: Rape in the Military
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BRANCACCIO: Worldwide, there are roughly 26,000 women currently deployed in U.S. military combat and support zones. The biggest number ever. Over the past year, NOW’s been reporting on the danger those women face, and not just from combat.
Department of Defense records show that last year, there were almost fourteen hundred reports of women being assaulted and raped by their fellow soldiers and in some cases by their commanding officers. And there’s evidence that many other incidents were never reported at all.
Senior correspondent Maria Hinojosa and producer Megan Thompson have the latest developments in our investigation.
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Answer by brian t
I wasn’t aware that NOW still existed.
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now let’s see the records of the homo rapes. Any records of that? of course not, only the women. What about the poor buttholes that were invaded from other fellow males. Don’t ask don’t tell.
That’s one of the reasons I don’t think women really belong in the military among men and especially in combat units. I’ve always thought this was a terrible idea.
This is not a new issue. There have been sexual assaults documented in the military for a very long time. Proving them and getting convictions is the problem.
I was raped in my own room in an Officer’s Mess of the British Army by a senior officer from another country who was visiting the UK. The army hastened the termination of my service when it became clear that I was still having difficulty coping after 2 months.
The foreign office decided it would damage the UK’s relationship with his government if the matter was pursued. I received no apology, no compensation, and no support. 28 years on, I still have nightmares, flashbacks, and difficulty sleeping in hotel rooms, or even the homes of friends.
I had hoped things had changed. Evidently not.
i am well aware of this situation, as a trained sexual assault advocate, and though our cases are confidential, all i can say is that we do get a lot of military women in our cases, and
as well as military men. But there is a separate service that handle thier cases, as these men want to be more discreet about getting help and disclosing information.
rape happens everywhere, but getting these kinds of statistics from the military seems astounding, just because of the values and morals and discipline they try to convey.