Military Sexual Assault

"You’re just in a world of predators who are trying to attack you in the same uniform.” 

Her willingness to speak truth in spite of fear left a lasting impression on me.

Pour on some cringe syrup.

What the actual fuck.

"When I got this call I was driving and I had to pull over because I was crying and shaking..."

"Numerous females soldiers reported that it is a daily battle to get through the day"

"The Army can deploy thousands and thousands of troops during a war situation within 24 hours .... And they can't expedite our daughter off a base after two sexual assaults?"

Col. Kevin Russell is currently assigned to U.S. Special Operations Command

"She was afraid of this guy ... there were instances of him being volatile and aggressive and controlling."

Corporal Thae Ohu has struggled in the five years since she says she was sexually assaulted by a fellow Marine. Now she's in the brig

Between 2014 and 2019, the Minnesota National Guard got 112 reports of sexual assault, with nine of those cases resulting in criminal charges

“You can see that one person covers something up, and then three more people get involved, and before you know it, it’s all the way up to the highest person possible."

“Had these policies been adopted in 2011, who knows how much further we would be in the fight to eliminate not just harassment but other forms of sexual violence in our armed forces"

"It's [women] against [men] and [men] against [women]. And we're not united."

Too often, military sexual trauma survivors report being re-traumatized by the very system that's meant to help them

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie allegedly sought to intentionally discredit a female veteran who reported a sexual assault at a VA medical center. This will not stand

Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie personally sought damaging information about a congressional aide who said she was sexually assaulted in a VA hospital, according to an anonymous complaint to the House committee the woman works for

The number of reports of sexual assault at the military service academies is on the rise. A report released by...

"You can ignore these problems. You can pretend they never happened ... or you can you can try to make a difference."

The conviction of a former Naval Academy midshipman for sexually assaulting a female midshipman while she slept has been overturned

"I am extremely upset and concerned ... our service members deserve to be safe and supported while carrying out their important mission."

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether military personnel can be prosecuted for rape long after the crime occurred in an appeal by President Donald Trump's administration of a lower court ruling that overturned the rape conviction of an Air Force captain

Unlike the SEALs, the Marines understand that hiding bad news does not make it go away.

The officer told the Washington Post that Hyten made unwanted sexual contact with her multiple times, including allegedly sexually assaulting her in December 2017.

"I would have been damned had I been a slut, but I was just as damned for not having been one."