RE: Women in the Military More Likely to Be Traumatized by Sexual Assault Than Combat
November 26, 2012 at 1:56 am
(This post was last modified: November 26, 2012 at 2:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Most of the folks involved in this aren't the trigger pulling type Cato. Courts- Martial aren't handled by combat arms (no sense blaming the victim or the offender for a failure of justice). Commanding officers who previously had control aren't likely to be so much different from anyone else you might meet. Rape a Majors daughter and see whether or not you're shown any leniency (then wonder why someone was if they may have raped another's daughter). Standard human indifference and strangeness. I suppose it's a fair bit worse in the service, having been (and continuing to be) a boys club, for the most part.
(November 26, 2012 at 1:29 am)Shell B Wrote: Furthermore, if you are discharged because of some bunk crime they try to make the victim out to have committed or because of injuries sustained during the assault and that discharge puts you even a day shy of two years, the VA isn't going to pay for your injuries.Complete and utter betrayal right there. The wrong people are getting discharged when shit like that happens.
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