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to date 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 off against aggression this is the big picture now to show you part of the big picture here is sergeant stuart wade. the brevard job serving the united states and uniform is no longer limited to mount.
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now you please by the women's on the koran take in this grooming and feminine graces one of the 1st lessons learned by the recruit. at work americans that require a perfect physical health system. i'm sure you've all heard the say there's a right way a wrong way and the army way. this isn't something. hard it is a. model but prior to.
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contact turn writing 150 with the found helicopter hanging on your every word it doesn't matter whether you're a man or a woman only that you. see. the truth. alice finally. typesetting tests a lot of work that's totally. it was a waiting list for the navy over a year and i knew i didn't want. so i had
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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 in europe and and east texas i bought my own little house and the military was something i always wondered do i come from military family i was always taught that 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 enjoy the air force 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 around the truck after soccer practice and he cited he'd
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be perfect for the marine corps because they are really smart and that's what the marine corps needs 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 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 a revolutionary war had served in the armed forces and i chose the marine corps because no one in my family had ever done. ellos putting on a uniform every day and. you know just getting out there and giving it my all and
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it's a very proud feeling. that i would have done the camp over and over again it was create the camaraderie the discipline everything it taught you who i wanted to be that's what they taught you there. obviously was different and taken a shower with different people all of a sudden. but disagree experience i was a sailor every single report on me was excellent grades i knew what i needed to do and it was a great team leaner. i really enjoyed the whole challenge of it i got several different awards and kudos it was mainly men love that i could blend in and keep up with the guys and work as hard as. the new economy was challenging and education was talk not my senior year i was selected to be one
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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 set up in my room and then he took me to the bar which was in our barracks and set down in a table were 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 but i couldn't. yes yes. i. did. i met corey december 17th of 2007. i was on watch when she got to the
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station and. this 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 michigan. i was the only female in my section. supervisor. to the place where i get calls at 3 o'clock in the morning or telling me to come get him. 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
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told me just because i didn't like somebody they were going to switch me away from this guy. in the evening around taps 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 they went away 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. ok yeah come on in
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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 arm. the. and he raped me and. 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 shot. and while i was waiting to be examined. and came in and he helped himself 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 and nobody. came to help me and maurice cure anything they made it very very
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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. i 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 which i found out later go in 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 push my legs apart and put himself on top of me and start
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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. that is locked and loaded $45.00 at the base of my skull. engage the ball so that i 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 trick. and i was pregnant. he did.
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rape me. and 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 somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the. u.s. military. the corona virus is a global health danger that is yet to be contain this fire is also raise questions about the integrity of supply chains open borders and the weaknesses of globalization and dangerously this virus is being used as a political weapon. if
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you know you don't put it do 50 noise don't use a good number 2 number one when you have no kids with you to the fleeting moment to moment don't going to. see you know all the good that is down there and that of all the use in the. north pole since i was in the attic of the public are you on the i'm ok mom simone. at the results and i don't have an opinion on that he wasn't up is not allowed to fly out to planes or. most of them to most of it to you all to see the pope or see your son some of it to. go to shows. locals to the world put him in his little niece a little there's a pool with the issue of. the new put. to the supreme jewel mean or goes.
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that there was. my dad my brother prior nabi in the army national guard and. in the family in. it 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. one 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 thing she said is that i. am not. 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 and places and my hips are rotated. my title is
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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 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 till i get a 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 want to deal with it females would come up to their commanders are there 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
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a member bring in a young service member 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. city chewed her off for crying in total stop crow spilt milk out of time and 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 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
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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 line 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 so do you want to file a report. with the. 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 doesn'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 say
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what. is going on with the v.a. . mike you want to. bet if 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. time to go. it was they c of course they. they ordered they ordered a back x. ray instead of that 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's my face it's not my back it's not my legs my arms it's my need to prove i don't even know what your case is even though i don't even know why waste the gas money
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that trip anything it was completely a waste of time but a good veteran's day right. so 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 where some of my friends and family had like one or 2 drinks and when laying 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
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are hunters just like any hunter they study their prey they study their movements to study the behaviors they study the environment. you have rapists the 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 and 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
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a relatively closed system like the military it becomes a prime. a target rich environment for a predator. what i hate was discharged they moved to seattle or things got really bad. i started to lose everything. is homeless. the addiction to selling drugs crack and 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
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jobs they can hold their lives together and they end up on the streets when i 1st saw 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 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. i've never known before and. in her prime now she's anxious and sad a lot of. going
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to go going to go for the next few minutes. to come. to terms if i can around doing something you know michel be like. oh it's ok trina ever appreciative of it you know but it makes me really. sad that here's this little 11 year old boy that's watching out for my well being. and. you know i wanted to go away. you know go away.
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