rebekah, can you give us a preview of what you will tell the committee tomorrow?s, i'll be focusing on my personal story and how the system failed me in my experiences. so my testimony will be coming from a personal perspective and personal experiences and not as much from my professional experiences. >> i want to show a sample of exactly that kind of story from the oscar nominated documentary "invisible war" of women talking about what it is like to report these rapes. >> when you report something, you better be prepared for the repercussions. >> if a man gets accused of rape, it is a setup, the woman is lying. >> i could choose to report it, but if i wasn't, you know, if they found that what i was saying wasn't to be truthful, then 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. so do you want to file a report? >> anu, one of the things that strikes me about the wilkerson case, here is a general last week overruling one of these findings. this is after this film has come out. t

she was sexually assaulted by a non--- officer and rebekah havrilla. rebekah served in u.s. army from 2,042,008. she was only female member of the bomb squad in eastern afghanistan attacked by a colleague on the pakistani border during her last week in the country in 2007. we have brian lewis former petty officer third class navy. brian was in the u.s. navy in june of 1997. during his tour he was raped by a superior noncommissioned officer and forced to go back out to sea after the assault. anchorage each of you to express your views candidly and tell us what is working and what is not working. tell us who understand what to do to address this problem of sexual assault in the military. we will hear your opening statement here's your complete and prepared statements will be included in the record. following the open statements we limit our question to seven minutes in the first round to senators. ms. bhagwati. >> thank you. good morning chairman gillibranr graham and members of the subcommittee. my name is anu bhagwati and the executive director of service women's action netw

. >> rebekah, when people joined the military, especially now, they know there's risk and danger.untry that's been in live combat for over a decade now. but when you joined, did you have any sense that you were in this kind of danger within and among your own troops? >> no, i don't think anybody thinks that when they join the military. the military trains you from the beginning to focus on the unit, to take care of each other, to band together, and having something like that happen to you when you're in the military produces a whole another sense of betrayal and trauma and really just makes a deep impact on your psyche as a person and your mental status. and i don't think anybody is ever thinking about that when they walk into a job like the military and that's what i saw, i saw it as a job, something i enjoyed doing. i never thought that i would end up where i did. >> anu, do you suspect that the fact that we now have women on the armed services committee in the senate is making a difference in the way this issue is being heard? >> i do think that matters. the spearhead of reform

. >> woodruff: rebekah havrilla, a former army sergeant, said she did not report her rape initially and then... >> "approximately a year after separating from active duty, i was on orders for job training. and during that time i ran into my rapist at a post store. he recognized me and told me he was stationed on same installation. i was so retraumatized that i removed myself from training and i sought out assistance from chaplain who told me among other things that the rape was god's will and god was trying to get my attention so that i would go back to church. six months later, perp had taken photographs during my rape, at that point i felt it would always haunt me unless i did something about it. i went to c.i.d. and a full investigation was completed. it was the most humiliating thing i have experienced. i had to relive the entire event for four hours and explain what was going on in each of the pictures. >> woodruff: senator kirsten gillibrand-- chairing the subcommittee-- got a mixed response, when she asked if an outside prosecutor would help in reporting crimes, by moving the pro

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it was, you know, sort of thinking back 20/20 as rebekah said on, those experiences, i had so much more rank and authority than the average servicemember navigating these issues by far. so much more freedom of movement. there's something that i think happens beyond the company grade level with officers who definitely are staying in for the full twenty years or more. i was actually -- it was suggested to me by an equal opportunity officer i should charge my battalion commander for failure to do the right thing in the cases. which was absolutely overwhelming perspective. it shut me down completely. here i was a captain; right. i couldn't even fathom what it was like for somebody e2 or e 3-rbgs going through the same thing. i couldn't do it because -- i was literally the thought of doing it made me dysfunctional. i couldn't -- i had command. i had to command my company, and to do that in addition to filing an equal opportunity investigation against a lieutenant, it was just overwhelming. , youyou know, the old boy's club when i was referring to is very much alive and well within each servi

the two children rebekah and jacob have not seen their father.ot seen her husband in almost a year now. and the strange thing is and as we are about to show you, they have not heard one single thing from president obama. beamerican pastor be a a continue any is a prisoner of iran sentenced to 8 years in one of all because of his christian faith. >> he has been there five months. beat ten, tortured, suffering, internal bleeding, suffering in some medical issues. and i would expect our government to take every action to want him released now. >> in 2009, three american hikers were captured by the iranians. both president obama and the secretary of state called for their immediate release. but in the be a be a dean any case the white house has he usually quiet. >> i want you to tell me about the telephone call you received from president obama. >> i have not received a phone call from president obama. >> tell me about the telephone call you received from the secretary of state. >> i have not received any telephone calls from the secretary of state.

it was -- you know, sort of thinking back 20/20, as rebekah said, on those experiences, i had so much more rank and authority than the average service member navigating these issues. by far. so much more freedom of movement, but there's something that i think happens beyond the company grade level with officers who definitely are staying in for the full 20 years or more. i was actually -- it was suggested to me by an equal opportunity officer that i should charge my battalion commander for failure to do the right thing in these cases, which was absolutely overwhelming prospect. just shut me down completely. and here i was a captain, right, and i couldn't even fathom what it was like for somebody who was maybe e-2, e-3 going through the exact same thing. i couldn't do it because i was literally -- the thought of doing it made me dysfunctional. i still had -- i had command. i had to command my company, and to do that in addition to filing an equal opportunity investigation against the lieutenant, i mean, it was just overwhelming. you know, the old boys club which i was referring to is v