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war. today the latest weapon coupled with the fighting skill of the american soldier stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country the american people against aggression this is the big picture now to show you part of the big picture here is sergeant stuart wait. the privilege of serving the united states and uniform is no longer limited to map. out your place by the women's on the koran taking this grooming and feminine greens
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50. 0. it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman only that you're in. the. 500. 60 s. it's a lot of work it's totally clear. 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
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tried college and. i had. a good job but as a married and an east texas i bought my own little house and the military was something i had always wondered do i come from military family i was always taught that every citizen's duty to join the military if you can you should so i want to go ahead and join and start a career. i'm sure the air force i was 17 years old had a boyfriend that encouraged me to go in so that's why they 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 truck after soccer practice and he said he'd be perfect for the marine corps has a really smart with the marine corps needs a professional as i am. camaraderie everything about it inspired me. after i
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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 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 back to the 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 . well of 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 the camp
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and it was create the cooler ottery that discipline everything it taught you who i wanted to be that's what they taught. obviously it was different taking a shower with different people all of a sudden good. but just 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 leader. i really enjoyed the whole challenge of it i got several different awards and kudos 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 notch my senior year i was selected to be one of the top 30 leadership positions by. company grade officers there. after
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basic i went to the name of security for 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 where was me and about 10 other guys. and you know kind of felt like 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. get it yeah. i. guess. i'm a corey december 17th of 2007 i was on watch when she got to the station and then this blew me away when she walked in. right. order
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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 michigan. i was the only female in my section. i had a supervisor. to the place for 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 weren't going to switch me away from this guy. it was in the evening around taps
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and. he don't lock 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. 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.
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the. and he raped me and his birth. every thing came to a complete and 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 any help himself he said he was going to the bathroom 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. that. if i said anything they were going to kill me. you know in then of course i
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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 was had a tough time convincing myself that i'm still. if this is happening to me you know i can only imagine surely i'm not the only one 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
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pitcher. i was drugged i remember the sounds the smell. of it is locked and loaded $45.00 at the base of my skull. engage the ball so that i knew there was around chambered all i could do was continue to concentrate on breathing slam my head against the concrete wall and very forcefully had sex with me and i just went to my tent told 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 tricked and. and i was pregnant ready. he did. rape me. 991 in congressional testimony it was estimated that 200000 women had been sexually
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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 somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the u.s. military. in my i phone or have a 1000 times the capability of the of the computers we had on board the space for at that time i mean it's ridiculous that in my back pocket i have much much more capability than we had in the hood and the entire apollo program. you mentioned 635 did you ever what career and career involves using your are still in your computer and things that have been in the office.
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perhaps you sort your things have it sister kids. are going to have to stop doing all this in this kind of you lou there must be for my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up living in the box. a very strong magnetic field on my car in my head. like a real hard pressure on my skin and that wireless access point there just continues all day with our students in the schools. we are just continually our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electoral small and it's getting worse.
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for the current through our. thanks to saul was prescribed in the last 3 to 4 months this is praxis. towel program this is the annex. i'm tired of taking all these med i just want the v.a. to fix my jaw. 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 in a car accident when he hit me in my face he dislocated my jaw and both of my just forward in my face i don't have any for my where they should be in my face they told me i'd probably need a partial bone replacement for my bone it playing on my nerves for so long actually disintegrate i've been on
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my dad my brother prior navy in the army national guard and. in the family 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.
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he said i own all of this. and i was absolutely scared didn't know what to do my dad. when the 1st time she said it was bad. and. i said. what happened he said i was right. and you're a virgin. because. tribute. don't ever think your. main nerve in my spine was 3 places and my hips are rotated. my title is director of military plans and personnel policy for the navy. we have specifically
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trained judge advocates our navy lawyers in our naval criminal investigative service those investigators are all specifically trained in sexual assault any report 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 felt like oh right i'm giving this case i'm going to take care of it oh well this is really want to really don't have 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 and they were basically told to just suck it up a member bring in a young service member had been brutally raped and bring her in to see or command and try to make sure that this girl was take care properly and this idiot. the city
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chewed her off for crying in total stop crying over spilt milk and in time the credibility of the 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 quote unquote 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.
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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 they found that what i was saying wasn't to be truthful than i would be reduced in rank you could lose your rape 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 rape everything in the 1st my friend numerate me they sound believe me they reported that 2 different times to my squad leader and he told me that there is nothing he can do about it because they don't have any proof they actually did charge me with adultery. i wasn't married he was they took me before make my hand the tank commander and he says you think this is funny and i said what do you mean his like the solid jokes you like what do you mean and he goes you're the 3rd girl report rape this week even as they
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v.a. mine is new. but we were there 1st and then. this goes everywhere with me. 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 they c of course they. they ordered they ordered a back x. ray instead of facts but if you're so make up. we should have 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 baby need to prove i don't even know what your case is even if i don't even know why waste the gas money the trip anything it was completely a waste of time what
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a good veteran's day right. it's a perfect way to spend. it. because it was an isolated duty station they were in charge and we were just like cattle. it was the 1st time i was drugged and raped i was this room with some of my friends and i only had like one or 2 drinks and when laid down it was like instantly i was not feeling well and came to having a pillow over my head in my friend. raping me. that went on repeatedly. most sex offenders are hunters just like any hunter they study their prey the. study their movements
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instead of the behaviors they study the environment you have rapists that prey on other human beings they they stock them they they wait until the victim is 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 in particularly for a savvy perpetrator to work with in a relatively closed system like the military it becomes
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a prime. a target rich environment for a predator. what a was discharged they moved to seattle or things got really bad. i started to lose everything. is homeless. the addiction to selling drugs back in 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
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started training as a gemini and i look over and it was like the universe was like a gal. in my head i was like you are i know there are some special of our. wow for hair 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 for you know before and you might show sort of in her in her prime now she is anxious and sad a lot of. going to go going to go for the next few minutes. to come. out
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and attends and make the foreground doing something and you know michel be a lie check it in like oh it's ok trina it's i have appreciative of it you know they may see me really 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. 30 years ago the berlin wall fell the cold war had essentially come to an end the fall of this cold war symbol was heralded as a new spring of nations and the end of communism decades on what is the legacy of
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this historic event the promises of $989.00 been fulfilled. to my hardest to a dash 1st to care but it. dhanush i think. of the design you made to be. in the same country because he must not tell a full scale you make us tell us your face or body has suddenly become one thing my mother but then if it had been a bust wouldn't. the
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6. of them on the hook include the whole thing as opposed to the final thing with the cut this is you gotta send them some. things. just so you don't know a man who's young they have. ties to my small person and he is still so not to sing on. me something good to see. you know world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mid stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's target for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for
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