Reported rape stuns Stryker unit

Trib Net ^ | November 30th, 2003 | MICHAEL GILBERT

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

No but I've got a lock on my shower door and nobody in my house is big enough to rape me.

[Porterville]

They should keep this stuff internal during times of war and hang the bastard if he is military under military law.

[Prodigal Son]

Yeah, this is one of the problems though with communal living. You take your bayonet into the shower trailer and don't take into the actual shower stall with you, one of your "buddies" is going to take that bayonet. Same with a Buck Knife.

[Lion Den Dan]

Why the hell not?

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Commanders fear unintentional discharges. Troops are so poorly trained that UD are an extreme likelyhood. Commanders have so little understanding of firearms that they have troops do stupid things in thae name of firearms safety.

[FreedomPoster]

Ping

[FreedomPoster]

Good morning! In South Dakota? Or is it North?

I very much appreciate that you do not use the term "accidental discharge". Using AD really sets my teeth on edge. UD or ND (negligent discharge), either one, works.

[SLB]

Here are my comments from another thread on this topic I posted earlier this morning:

Let this old retired maintenance warrant officer spout off on the topic of women in the military one more time. Females in the military do more to undermine the morale then they do to boost it! Call me a male chauvinist pig or whatever. I had a mission and having X number of females replace X number of males meant that the remainder of the males had to pick up the load and carry the females. That is just a plain old ordinary fact of life!

As an NCO I had females selling oral sexual favors to males on breaks. When I put an end to that the males all complained and even some of the women as they were making a few extra bucks on breaks. I had a female soldier offer me sexual favors if I would show her favors in assigning duties. As a warrant officer I had basically the same problems and a PC chain of command that was afraid of offending them. I tried to support the NCO's who felt the same way that I did, but was told to chill and not interfere.

Now we read of a female on ship who had a baby! Talk about exposing her fellow sailors/Marines to risk. This gives the ship's Captain one more concern to plan for when sailing into harm's way.

In no way will I ever infer that a female in a unit is asking for or deserves to be raped. I believe that rape should remain a capitol offense. I just do not want the leaders of our military to have to spend the extra resources needed to prevent it when not exposing women to those conditions would go a long way in preventing it.

Added to this thread:
Does she not carry her beretta with her everywhere even if she leaves her rifle in her bunk? Where is her combat knife? I have a hard time believing someone goes out raping amongst that many armed people.

By MTOE her personnel firearm might be an M9 but more than likely was an M16. This ain't like WWII movies where everyone and their brother packed a M1911A1, an M1 Garand and maybe a BAR, or so Hollywood would have us believe.

[WolfRunnerWoman]

Reality Check here, folks... As a former Military Police, I can tell you that if you've got over 9000 soldiers stationed anywhere, you're gonna have crime. Simple as that. Folks, these people aren't all Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. Any problems or predispositions they had before joining, come with them. The Libs will probably make a big fat hairy deal out of this, but it is not an uncommon occurrence. I feel bad for her if indeed she was raped, but let’s not make more of this than it is.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

See Post 69 of Female Stryker brigade soldier alleges rape

There is more going on in this brigade than one rape.

Wonder what their blotter reports looked like at Fort Lewis?

[LouD]

I'm not talking about pilfering equipment for personal benefit. I'm talking about how units get the equipment they need to operate.

I had an additional duty once as NBC NCO for a new unit we were bringing online. We had a classic scrounger supply sergeant, and he helped us get every single piece of equipment we needed through "unofficial" means - The official supply authorization process took almost a year. Once we got the official stuff, we swapped our unofficial NBC room with other units for a bunch of other stuff we needed.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I knew what you meant but a sandwhich at night is what keeps you working through the midwatch. That's why they have Midrats (midnight rations) when you go out to sea, but the cooks didn't want to do it if we weren't out for more than a week.

[Britton J Wingfield]

All the soldiers have their DNA on file in their medical records. Should be easy enough to catch.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I never mail-ordered some lock picks, and stole cheese-cake and frozen tacos from the Goat Locker every night while I was in the gulf. That would have been wrong.