 mcsmithblack says: This article is quite comprehensive in scope and deserves a full reading. A few more paragraphs from it follow this remark. "Yet for decades, in spite of the terrible numbers, the military has managed with astonishing success to get away with responding to grievances like Krause's with silence, or denial, or by blaming "a few bad apples." But when individual soldiers take the blame, the system gets off the hook. And it can be shown that the patterns of military sex crimes are old and widespread -- for generations, military service has transformed large numbers of American boys into sexual predators. So it seems reasonable to ask if perhaps there is something about military culture or training or experience that can be identified as causative, and then, perhaps, changed." This is a huge calumny against the military - but only to be expected from alternet.org. Why not just say they pulled the stats from their behinds and be done with it? Why not just say they pulled the stats from their behinds and be done with it?Links are hard work, eh? The statistics come from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center study that was funded by the Department of Army Medical Research, under direction of the Department of Defense. Go ahead and actually click through to take a look. It requires some reading, though. But I'm sure now you'll have some glib line about how you know better what's going on with female veterans than they do. "Violence towards women in the military has identifiable risk factors, according to a study by Iowa City Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) and University of Iowa researchers. The researchers interviewed a nationwide sample of 556 female veterans who served in the Vietnam, post-Vietnam and Persian Gulf War eras. The women were selected from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs comprehensive women's health care registries. Participants completed an extensive structured interview to determine the characteristics of rape victims and perpetrators, as well as environmental factors associated with rape occurring during military service. The researchers found that 79 percent of participants... |
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