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Posted By bubba2 1 year, 5 months ago in StyleSen. Bob Casey says he continues to hear many complaints about sexual harassment and abuse from women who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, and he wants the Defense Department to do more to stop mistreatment and provide more care for victims.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 5 months ago
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Women in National Guard units deployed overseas are in a particular bind. All of the personnel in NG units are typically from the same community, and a complaint while on active duty may bring retribution after the unit returns to civilian status.
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1-2-Oscar1 year, 5 months ago
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The local unit, a transportation battalion which has done three tours in Iraq, is drawn from a three-county area. They are essentially one community.
I understand that retribution is a crime, and I also understand that enforcement is virtually non-existent.
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Hobe1 year, 5 months ago
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Senator says Defense Department must eliminate sexual assaults
WOW..., who would ever think this would happan????
The current Congressmaen and Senator's Need to be Voted out Of Office....
Special Intrest controls their every move...
VOTE the Lifer's OUT OF OFFICE Both sides, stop the corruption, Scandel and Waste of hard working Americans Tax Dollars.......
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Poulenc1 year, 5 months ago
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When I read stories like this I'm reminded of how little has changed in the realm of (straight) male-female relations, at least in a "closed" setting.
And people make a big deal of the "morale-destroying sexual tension" that they're certain will ensue if gays are allowed to serve openly in the military.
Bottom line: men respect one another; not so when it comes to women.
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bigurn1 year, 5 months ago
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In my estimation it is quite the opposite. Men tend to respect and protect women, which is why there are real concerns about mixing women and men in full combat operations. Men don't respect each other any more than they have to, either through duty or mutual dislike.
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Natureboy1 year, 5 months ago
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Sexual assault, abuse and rape are so prevalent in the military that they have their own syndrome "military sexual trauma."
Read, and be disgusted -
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3912/is...
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bigurn1 year, 5 months ago
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Military sexual trauma is, from the article, a domestic violence problem. Moreover, this entire piece is so poorly written it is difficult to make sense of it. The author jumps between domestic problems and military problems, confuses the two, and uses terminology that combines two different inputs into the same output (assault).
The kinds of abuses include "economic abuse", which goes undefined. Also, it does not say what constitutes any of these abuses, so conceivably any behavior could be construed as abuse (quite possibly in the eye of the victim).
I gave up on page 5. My kids write better than this.
I was disgusted. At the author.
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Natureboy1 year, 5 months ago
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"Rates of marital aggression in the military are 2 to 5 times higher than civilian rates. Surveys show that rates of physical and sexual abuse of military personnel have risen from 18.6 cases per 1,000 in 1990 to 26.5 cases per 1,000 in 1996 and 2001. In addition to physical abuse, approximately 9 to 14% of female military personnel experience sexual abuse, depending on the service branch."
Is that difficult for you to make sense of?
Obviously, denial aint just a river in Egypt.
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Poulenc1 year, 5 months ago
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Interesting, bigurn.
The protection of women is a form of condescension, isn't it? One is saluting one's own powerfulness/another's "weakness"--and thereby drawing a line in the sand. In any case, "equal" won't do.
My experience is that men may be mutually competitive---god knows, they are!--but when push comes to shove, as it so often does, men fear the strength of their own sex, the ability to do damage.
Men DO rape other men, but hardly as often as they do women. There's a lesson there, I think.
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Natureboy1 year, 5 months ago
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Don't forget the "man's man" action. Male on male rape within the military is far more common than most would think, and it is really taboo to speak about.
http://www.refusingtokill.net/rape/malerapinthe...
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