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there's a right way a wrong way and the army wait a little. bit . more than that i'm done the man. card it is going to. run. model but prior to. that. there. was no contact turn right in 150 with the found helicopter hanging on your every word and it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman only that you're on. the time comes.
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i. shall psychedelic. stop 2nd guess yourself it's a lot of work it's time to take it's just so. there was a waiting list for the navy over a year and i knew i didn't wait that long so i had a friend to me about the coast guard and i went to the coast guard and they said that they could get me in within a month so said ok. i tried college and. i had. a good job but as a married and and east texas i bought my own little house and the military was something i always want. do i come from military family i was always taught that
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it's every citizen's duty to join the military if you can you should and so i want to go ahead and join and start a career. i'm sure that of course i was 17 years old i had a boyfriend that encouraged me to go in so that's why he didn't give you permission to go. when i was in high school i was impressed with the marines but i had met a colonel that used to run laps around the track after soccer practice and. you'd be perfect for the marine corps has a really smart mouth but the marine corps needs a professional as i am the camaraderie everything about it inspired me. after i graduated high school i left for orlando florida which was the 1st time i was ever on an airplane and a life. initially it was just wanting to go see the world because i'm from
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a really small town i had a college scholarship to go play basketball but i instead opted to go into the military. you know what i chose to do. i come from a long line of military when we had somebody from every generation on both sides of the family all the way to of revolutionary war i had served in the armed forces and i chose the marine corps because no one in my family had ever done that. ellos putting on a uniform every day and you know just getting out there and giving it my all and it's a very proud feeling. that i would have done to camp over and over again it was create the cooler ottery that discipline everything it taught you who i wanted to be that's what they taught you. obviously it was different taking a shower. with different people all of a sudden good. but just
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a great experience i was a sailor every single report on me was excellent grades i knew what i needed to do and i was a great team winner. i really enjoyed the whole challenge of it i got several different awards and. it was mainly men i love that i could blend in and keep up with the guys and their work as hard as. the new economy was challenging and education was talk not my senior year i was selected to be one of the top 30 leadership positions by the company great officers there. after basic i went to the naval security group alaska i remember getting there you know issued a parka got set up in my room and then he took me to the bar which was in her barracks and set down in a table were it was me and about 10 other guys. and you know kind of felt like
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a piece of meat on a slab at that point and i never wanted to turn around and leave so much of my life that i couldn't. yeah yeah. i. did. i'm a corrie december 17th of 2007 i was on watch when she got to the station and. just blew me away when she walked in. right. ok thank you. the command told us that she was coming then there were some issues but we didn't none of the crew knew exactly what had happened and i didn't find out. for a long time. i was stationed in saginaw
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river mission and. i was the only female in my section. i had a supervisor. to the place where i get calls at 3 o'clock in the morning and he are telling me to come get him and i'm like i can i'm bad and he would then threaten me . i'd walk in from training and he'd be sleeping in my bed. when we went to one of the higher ups the chain of command they were all like his his drinking buddy and they told me just because i didn't like somebody they were going to switch me away from this guy. it was in the evening around taps and. he had unlocked the door and he'd come in and he had an erection and he tried to get me to touch him i took my right hand and i pushed him in the chest and started to yell for the other guys to kind of hear me. he hit me across.
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the left side of my face i remember. holding the closet thinking what just happened. to my face hurt so. when we went to the command about it me and this petty officer who saw my face. they just let it wait because they didn't want any kind of problems going on. a couple weeks later i needed the key to do my cleanup so i knocked on his door and he said ok yeah come on in here and here and i said no no i'm going to wait out here. and he screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my own arm. the. and he raped me. every thing came to
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a complete change the day that i was raped i got there in february. by april i was drugged and raped for the 1st time i had like a cold or pneumonia like symptoms and so they sent me to get shut down and while i was waiting to be examined. and came in and he helped him so he said he was going to the bathroom and he came into my room and and that's when he raped me the entire time i was screaming and yelling for help and for him to stop nobody came to the door nobody came to help me and maurice cure anything they made it very very clear . if i said anything they were going to kill me. you know in then of course i didn't have anyone to go talk to because the people that were perpetrating me were the police. it was my 1st time ever and.
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had a tough time convincing myself that i'm still over. if this is happening to me you know i can only imagine surely i'm not the only one in which i found out later going through the claims process that i wasn't. it's just after 3 am i see a shadow of a human head over my body next thing you know that i'm awake and like he's on top of me pushed my legs apart and put himself on top of me and start pulling at my shirt and i wake up and that he's on top of me. he's already penetrated i was drugged i remember the sounds the smell. it is locked and loaded $45.00 at the base of my skull. engage the ball so that i
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knew there was around chamber all i could do was continue to concentrate on breathing slam my head against a concrete wall and very forcefully had sex with me i just went to my tent pulled a sleeping bag over my head and cried myself to sleep so within the 2 week period. he raped me 5 times we got tested. i had a trick. and i was pregnant. he did. he rape me. 991 in congressional testimony it was estimated that 200000 women had been sexually assaulted so far in the u.s. military if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and that was you know more than a decade ago i would say you could easily double that number and it's probably
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somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the. us military. but if she warned you posted by you and i did the dishes at the walls more than those jeans nudist beach and you see me. blue true street. cars and about their normal lives e.q.'s will be home in the news i mean that is where that information ball. a lot of you will see sawing during fuzzy fights about who can shout the most ardent most called. the simple as in the atoms to me as a fire chief.
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cabinet 5 film days doing this in. english lady a for people who simply. include in. the world is driven by shaped by our own person. who dares thinks. we dare to ask. this is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the streets. what happens to her family my daughter's in florida
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law the mother daughter is. it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the police needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pay than him and what happens in court be. shocked shocked as far as i reveal that we don't know just for the call. of this trial that we. truly will still love no. more than a catastrophic. thanks it was prescribed in last 3 to 4 months
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this is cracks a team. towel program this is the annex. i'm tired of taking all these men i just want the v.a. to fix my job. i was having the most horrible pain in my face so i went to the dentist because i thought it was just my teeth or something was wrong. the doctor came in after the x. rays and asked me if i had been in a car accident when he hit me in my face he dislocated my jaw and both my disc forward in my face so i don't have any right where they should be in my face they told me i'd probably need a partial bone replacement. bone and playing on my nerves for so long is starting to actually disintegrate. i've been on a soft diet for 5 years now. i can eat the foods that i everything is potato chalo.
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times. a lot of. time. that there was. my dad my brother prior nabi in the army national guard and. in the family
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in. was excited and completely just going and all my family was proud of me. as my biggest hero. told us of your own being taken care of and i guess that's one of the hard things that i have to accept because i told her that she would be. who's in february we got a call. once who is dying and he. rubbed his hand all over my entire body and told me he said i own all of this. and i was absolutely scared didn't know what to do i called my dad. when the 1st time she said it was bad.
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and. i said. what happened he said i was right. and you're a virgin. because. tribute. don't ever think you're. my main nerve in my spine was and places and my hips were rotated. my title is director of military plans and personnel policy for the navy. we have specifically trained judge advocates our navy lawyers in our naval criminal investigative service those investigators are all specifically trained in sexual solve any report
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of a sexual assault is fully investigated in the united states navy they didn't take care of it for a year and a half they were tracking down witnesses they had all these students that are. and they can walk them down and say hey you're only hold talking to statement and i didn't and i went through 3 investigators it was like ok i'm giving this case that's what it's sort of feel like i'm giving this case i'm going to take care of it oh well this is really want to really want to deal with it females would come up to their commanders or their and ceo's and say that they were either sexually assaulted or abused and i don't think it was taken seriously i think a lot of times a cursory investigation was done they were basically told to just suck it up a member bring in a young service member been brutally raped and bring him to see or command and try to make sure that this girl was taken care of properly and this idiot. in order to stop crime of course built milk out of time the credibility of the
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witness was called into account had the potential victim had she made claims like this in the past there was a lot of witch hunting going on i was ordered to advise a victim of her rights for false statement when i knew that she wasn't lying i was asked to bring her in advise her of her rights like a criminal and interrogate her for false statement until i got the truth out of her . what we hear again and again from soldiers who have been raped is that as bad as it was being raped what was as bad if not worse was to receive professional fratelli ation in their chosen career merely because they were raped when you report something. you better be prepared for the repercussions if a man gets accused of rape it's a setup the woman's life i could choose to report it but if i wasn't if you know if
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they found that what i was saying wasn't to be truthful than that i would be reduced in rank you could lose your rate you could lose rank you could lose your school if you file a false report 'd so. do you want to file a report. with the. everything in the 1st my friend ed to make me this sound believe me i reported it to different times to my squad leader and he told me that there is nothing he can do about it doesn't have any proof they actually did charge me with adultery. i wasn't married he was they took me before mike my and the tank commander and he says you think this is funny and i said what do you mean his like a solid jokes you like what do you mean they go see the 3rd girl report rape this week even as they all in cahoots you think is a game. ok
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and how hard is i usually take a. real. hard 39. 114 months with. the v.a. . my new 14 words. but we were there 1st and then. this goes everywhere with me.
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and this goes everywhere with me. you always have protection with jesus but sometimes you need just a little bit more. to go. it was a good day 'd of course they. they ordered they ordered up back at x. ray instead of today's tax free but here's the make up. shit of they should know you should know what's wrong with me like read my stuff and you'll see that it's my face it's not my back it's not my legs my arms it's my may need to prove i don't even know what your case is even about i don't even know why waste that the gas money the trip anything it was completely a waste of time but a good veteran's day right. it's a perfect way to spend it you know. because
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it was an isolated duty station they were in charge and we were just like cattle. it was the 1st time i was driving and i was this room with some of my friends and we had like one or 2 drinks and when laying down it was like instantly i was not feeling well and came to to having a pillow over my head and my friend. raping me. and that went on repeatedly. most sex offenders are hunters just like any hunter they study their prey they study their movements they study the behaviors they study the environment you have rapists that prey on other human beings they they stalk them they they wait until the victim is
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that the most vulnerable point in time to perpetrate their crimes a lot of times a victim as somebody that the suspect is very familiar with and they're very aware of what's going on most sex offenders have this hidden persona that nobody ever sees except for the victim therefore when they're caught or if somebody reports people don't tend to believe that because they don't see the typical sex offender if it's an officer it's an officer that has had a bit chilly in the past preyed on an enlisted they would do it once they get away with it and then they think wow this was pretty easy i'm going to try to get and particularly for a savvy perpetrator to work within a relatively closed system like the military it becomes a prime. a target rich environment for a predator. what
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a was discharged they moved to seattle or things got really bad. i started to lose everything. is homeless. the addiction to selling drugs crack a guy. 40 percent of homeless female veterans have been raped while they were surfing they spit into such depression and it appears that they can't hold jobs they can hold their lives together and they end up on the streets when i 1st saw training as a gem and i look over and it was like the universe was like a gal. in my head i was like you are i
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know there are some special of our. wow for sure when we 1st started dating it was hard. the biggest hurdle was not taking p.t.s.d. personally it does get really stressful and sort of said to have never known before and you know it shows sort of in her in her prime now she is anxious and sad a lot of. going to go going to go perfect even. if they come. by tens if i prefer out doing something and you know michel be like check in like oh it's ok trina sorry ever appreciative of it you know they may see me really
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sad that here's this little 11 year old boy that's watching out for my well being. that hurts you know i wanted to go away. you know and it doesn't go away. tensions between the masses and clauses have existed ever since most states came into being but often serve as a drive over political change with russian civil society growing larger and louder against the excesses of the governing elites what does the future of the political
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system look like. backscatter by a survival guide book stating just like wall street. the sure it's still there you don't get it back. oh heck no. repatriations forget the rest the 70. kaiser or. the 10 situation in venezuela is still all over the news the problem in venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented but that socialism has been only implement for inside venezuela things were different we're going to announce sanctions against the troll to venezuela associate. in the school of
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a supplement to. the tempest and political battle to move the. moment the focus of the who story isn't new makes him cold henry kissinger to tell him that it would not be tolerated in latin america an alternative economic and social system could take hold and therefore the policy would be to make. economy scream so once and making the economy of venezuela screed. please. the at. least the end.
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of. the week's top stories here on our t.v. do us ascends extra troops in the middle east and new sanctions on iran accusing the country of bombing saudi oil refineries. place. home calling his group why st paul's unfounded as an arrest continues for a 16 inch weekend. and the israeli prime minister's bid for a new term is dealt a major blow as ira parties back his rival to form a new government.

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