US Military Blog

Found while browsing Google, some interesting stuff from those who serve:
http://forums.military.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/69197221

Link to SAPRO and US Defense Department

Here’s a link to the US Department of Defense’s website that is committed to responding to sexual abuse in the military. The site contains a newsletter for April 2007. There is some pretty interesting data in the newsletter, and an address to which readers can respond.

Rape and PTSD in the U.S. Military

I found the following clip on YouTube. Its from NBC News In Depth with Brian Williams, and is an interview with several women suffering from PTSD because of having been sexually assaulted while serving in the military.

2001 Rape Statistics in the U.S. Military for Men and Women

On the U.S. defense department website there is an article, which sites that: “Officials estimate about three-tenths of a percent of men will be sexually assaulted while serving in the military — compared to 8 percent of women.” The total number of women serving in the military in 2001 was 199,850 according to this website.
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Jennifer Dyer and Rape Statistics in the United States

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The following link is an article about Jennifer Dyer, a female soldier who accused a fellow officer of raping her while she was serving in the New Jersey National Guard. There is also a link on the left hand side of this site under the heading INTERACTIVE, Sexual Assault, that has rape statistics from [...]

Female Soldiers in the Israeli Defense Force

I want to take a brief repose from looking at the U.S. military and focus a little bit on Israel and its attitude towards its own female soldiers. Like in the U.S., there is a debate going on in Israel about whether or not women should be fighting in combat positions alongside men. An article [...]

Motherhood and Duty

I am becoming very interested in the idea that women may actually have a moral duty as citizens to serve their countries by producing future generations. Surfing the web recently, I have come across more than a few websites, which extol the virtues of motherhood, and decry female soldiers as mothers who have abandoned their [...]

And Now, Some People Who Are Against Women in Combat

Check out this site I just found. Its totally anti the idea of women fighting in the U.S. military. The link is part of a larger site who’s mission is, “to restore our republic to the status which emboldened our Founding Fathers to sacrifice their reputations, fortunes, families, and lives for our right to life, [...]

“The Terrorist” and its implications for women soldiers. Spoiler/Warning

In the movie “The Terrorist,” which my post-fem class just watched, a 19 year-old Indian woman named Malli must make a choice, to assassinate a leader who is trying to eliminate her people and thereby kill her unborn child, or to forgo the assignment and save her child. At the beginning of the movie, [...]

Rape Statistics and What the U.S. Military Should Be Doing

In an article that I found on alternet.com written by a woman named Rose Aguilar, the author states marks the shocking increase in rape allegations in the U.S. military. “In 2003, Congress began requiring the Department of Defense to report the number of sexual assault cases on file. In 2005, military criminal investigators received [...]