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The state Appeals Court has affirmed the rape convictions of a former chief officer with the Coast Guard in Provincetown, according to a Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office press release. David Pierce, 46, of Sandwich was convicted on four counts of rape last year by a Barnstable Superior Court jury, but his three- to…

By Seth Robbins Outside of Baghdad in 2007, Jennifer Hunt’s convoy was struck by a roadside bomb. Shrapnel penetrated her cheek, exited below her chin, and lodged into her arms and back. Hunt, a 26-year-old sergeant in the Army Reserve, now has only one visible remnant from the blast: a dimple where the shrapnel pierced…

The United States government has been in the forefront of fight against human trafficking around the world. For this reason, our State Department produced annual reports on human trafficking in Person around the world and impose sanctions against the countries who fail to comply to its minimum standards to fight against human trafficking in their…

YORK —A jury trial scheduled for Thursday became a brief hearing and felony charges were dropped against a man accused of rape and abduction in York. The charges against Ralph Bryan Sykes, whose address is listed in court records as Langley Air Force Base, were dropped by the prosecutor during the hearing in York-Poquoson Circuit…

http://colorlines.com/archives/2010/07/despite_va_reforms_military_women_struggle_silently_with_sexual_trauma.html by Michelle Chen July 14 2010 On Monday, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced reforms to the rules for claiming veterans’ benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder. The White House says the move will ease the burden of proof that veterans face when trying to prove the mental wounds of war. But the new regulations…

The commander of the U.S. Coast Guard’s Sector Portland operation on Friday was relieved of his duties after an investigation found he had been repeatedly viewing pornographic and other restricted websites from his Coast Guard-issued computer. Capt. Fredrick G. Myer, who has led the shore-based Coast Guard operation located on Portland’s Swan Island since 2007,…

NEWPORT, R.I. — The Navy says a recent lecture by a professor at the Naval War College included language that was inappropriate. Karl Walling’s lecture, given in May, was partly on Machiavelli’s views on leadership and insurgency and counterinsurgency. At one point, Walling paraphrased some of Machiavelli’s theories on dealing with enemies, using Machiavelli’s famous…

Does the hyper-sexualization of female soldiers in the MTV generation contribute to the unprecedented epidemic of Military Sexual Trauma (MST) in today’s military, where a female soldier in Iraq is more likely to get raped by a fellow soldier than she is to be killed in combat? MST is often dismissed as the “logical outcome”…

NEW LONDON, Conn. — The first cadet to be court-martialed at the Coast Guard Academy in New London is taking his case to the country’s highest court. Webster Smith said on his website that he’s filed paperwork asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his case. Smith served five months in a military prison after…

Rape is traumatic no matter who it happens to. It is about power not sex, and far too often women are the victims of rape. Of course, not all victims of rape are women. When Seaman Jose Rodriguez was drugged and raped in June 2009, that information was never suppose to go any further than…