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Little has changed...

This happened 30 years ago when I was in the service...

The victims get punished, the rapists get promotions

1 posted on 02/15/2011 2:13:42 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

I wonder how throwing gays into the mix will effect things?


2 posted on 02/15/2011 2:17:24 PM PST by Godzilla (3-7-77)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Things will only get worse if gays are allowed to openly serve in the military.


3 posted on 02/15/2011 2:19:05 PM PST by smokingfrog ( BORN free - taxed to DEATH (and beyond) ...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Not a surprise.

The US military actively encourages prostitution where there are military bases around the world for the exploitation of young women and girls.

That is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear someone use the term military and honor in the same sentence.


4 posted on 02/15/2011 2:19:58 PM PST by GeronL (http://www.stink-eye.net/forum/index.php for FR backup site!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

One reason why the WAC was not a bad idea. The more you mix men and women, the more rough sex you get. You know that during war that rape is the preferred weapon of an advancing army. If it occurs in the most restricted situation possible, the family. IAC. what to do about it. A little better understanding by service women that they cannot trust even their superior officers not to take advantage. Only they. though. know what walls are the strongest protection, and so I think that they should be the ones who set the legal—and practical— boundaries. In a test of strength, they are bound to lose unless they can design a cage to keep the beast inside.


5 posted on 02/15/2011 2:26:37 PM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
Last year, the Pentagon reported there had been 3,230 complaints of sexual abuse by members of the military services ... It accuses Gates of violating the plaintiffs' constitutional rights by permitting military commanders to use "nonjudicial punishments" for accused rapists

I just thought this was such a classic example of media misleading.

Lead paragraph generates a large scary number by lumping together all cases of "sexual abuse," a generic category that covers a wide range of offenses, some of them pretty mild. Then it uses the term "rapist" as more or less an equivalent term. I suspect the number of reported rapes is a great deal less than 3000.

It is also notable that somehow the obligatory "accused" or "alleged" gets left out when referring to a "rapist."

10 posted on 02/15/2011 2:35:33 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Tennessee Nana
Total segregation by sex or sexual inclination or preference is called for. That's the only way to stop this sort of thing.

Men on one base. Women on another base. GLBT on six different bases depending on the day of the week ~ with regular random rotations.

Yup ~

13 posted on 02/15/2011 3:06:24 PM PST by muawiyah
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One of the more disturbing stories in the complaint is that of Sarah Albertson, a former Marine corporal at Camp Pendleton who says that after a night of partying, a superior officer climbed into the bed where she was sleeping and forced himself on her.

"I just kind of panicked, froze. I didn't say anything,"

Again, with all due respect, I have to ask: Are women being trained as warriors or is the military just another jobs program? I can't see how a female warrior would tolerate that. She'd have broken some of his ribs or neck or arm.

18 posted on 02/15/2011 3:17:27 PM PST by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: Tennessee Nana
I don't believe that rapists get NJP only.

I don't buy it.

There's a lot more to this story.

Where sufficient evidence exists for prosecution at Courts Martial, I'm certain that's what happens.

When it's a female sailor that comes back from shore leave and says another sailor took advantage of her while she was drunk...no marks...no witnesses...well, that's another story.

23 posted on 02/15/2011 3:30:37 PM PST by Mariner (USS Tarawa, VQ3, USS Benjamin Stoddert, NAVCAMS WestPac, 7th Fleet, Navcommsta Puget Sound)
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To: Tennessee Nana

It was bad enough when the military had women thrown in with them, it will get worse now that the Government is throwing in the peter puffers.

Is this all a part of the plan to destroy the military?


25 posted on 02/15/2011 3:34:45 PM PST by Venturer
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