Military Rape Crisis Center

I woke up around 7:00 A.M. to the sound of someone knocking on the window of my Volkswagen. It was the police. They asked if I was OK, then asked me to move on. I’d spent the night parked outside a shopping center—not because I’d been too sleepy to drive home, as I’d told the…

By Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Appeared in print: Wednesday, April 15, 2009, page B3 The hand-painted words crowd each other on some T-shirts, appear sparsely on others. But perhaps the most powerful T-shirt in the Clothesline Art Project at the Eugene Veterans Administration Clinic is a black one with no words. Its creator, a victim…

Army Pvt. LaVena L. Johnson was a 19-year-old soldier who died in Iraq after being raped, beaten, shot and set on fire. The Army has ruled Johnson’s death a suicide from a self-inflicted rifle shot. The case is profiled in the forthcoming documentary, “LaVena Johnson — The Silent Truth,” due for release in 2010. It…

Does Military Service Turn Young Men into Sexual Predators? By Penny Coleman. Posted October 22, 2009 Every day, for four years as a West Point cadet, Tara Krause lived and worked alongside the men who had gang-raped her. Still, she managed to graduate in 1982. She served as a field artillery officer during the Cold…

BAGHDAD — Capt. Margaret H. White began a relationship with a warrant officer while both were training to be deployed to Iraq. By the time they arrived this year at Camp Taji, north of here, she felt what she called “creepy vibes” and tried to break it off. In the claustrophobic confines of a combat…

A 19-year-old man who is on active duty in the United States Air Force has been charged with first-degree rape for allegedly having sex on Dec. 14 with a 13-year-old girl whom he met at a church in Cushing. If convicted of having sex with a 13-year-old girl, who cannot legally consent to such a…

With reported sex assaults in the Marine Corps up 40 percent since 2007, top service officials have ordered a crackdown to stop all forms of crude and inappropriate behavior, and Marines of every rank will be enlisted to help. The push will include new training for all Marines beginning early in 2010, but it will…

By CHEGE MBITIRUP A US army general has launched a new front in northern Iraqi. It’s against one of sexual contacts’ results. Pregnant soldiers and their amorous comrades will face court martial. Major General Anthony Cucolo announced the offensive early last month. It applies to all under his command: singles, husband and wife serving together, and…

Is there an Army coverup of the rape and murder of women soldiers?  Since the United States launched the Second Gulf War, ninety-four women in the Military have died in Iraq or during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). Of these deaths, some twenty occurred under extremely suspicious circumstances. The Department of Defense has characterized these deaths…

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