According to a study in 2003 by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, at least one-third of all women veterans have experienced rape or sexual assault during their service in the military. Thirty percent experience domestic violence. In most cases, the victim is punished for reporting the rape while the perpetrator goes unpunished. Does this seem fair to you? Why do the perpetrators get to go unpunished when they have committed such a serious crime? Even if they are military men, they should have to face the time if they do the crime. The police force should not let this continue to go on. They should not be allowed to go back onto the street after assaulting or raping a woman. It’s not just women in the armed services that face violence and sexual assault by military personnel. You never know what a soldier is going to do when he gets back from duty. A military woman that got raped said she remembers some infantry men telling stories of what they did to women one night during field training. They bragged about giving women “the angry dragon” or “a jelly donut.” The angry dragon is when a male ejaculates in a woman’s mouth and the smacks the back of her head, causing her to choke and blow semen out of her nose. A jelly donut is when a male ejaculates on a woman’s face, and then punches her in the nose. Knowing that this is what they do to women makes me very angry. Have they lost all respect for women? We are not their sex toys or play things to just use whenever they feel it is necessary. In 2009 the Beacon Press clarified that, “Some men feel that if a woman joins the military she is doing it because she wants to be used for sex. Why else would you join a violent, all-male organization unless you wanted it? So women ‘deserve’ it if they get raped. So this is what men think? They should be ashamed of themselves. The military has attempted to address the problem by adding violence prevention training and changing reporting procedures for the protection of victims. However, these changes have done little to change military culture. Something more needs to be done about this. My fellow ladies, are we going to stand back and continue to let this happen or do something to help prevent it?
http://cp.revolio.com/issue/17922 page 32-35
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