Is Rape a Reaction to Women in Military?

Judy Atwood-Bell was just a 19-year-old Army private when she says she was locked inside a barracks room at Fort Devens in Massachusetts, forced to the cold floor and raped by a fellow soldier.

For more than two decades, Atwood-Bell fought for an apology and financial compensation from VA for PTSD, with panic attacks, insomnia and severe depression that she recalls started soon after that winter day in 1981. She filled out stacks of forms in triplicate and then filled them out again, pressing over and over for recognition of the harm that was done.

The department labels it “military sexual trauma” (MST), covering any unwanted contact, including sexual innuendo, groping and rape.

A recent VA survey found that 1 in 4 women said they experienced sexual harassment or assault. And the problem is growing more pressing because female veterans represent the military’s fastest-growing population, with an estimated 2.2 million, or 10 percent, of the country’s veterans. More than 280,000 female veterans have returned home from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

About two weeks ago, when Atwood-Bell checked the department’s Web site,  she was stunned to discover that the agency had accepted her claim for compensation.

“It’s taken over 20 years, and that should’ve never happened,” said Atwood-Bell, who retired as a sergeant first class and lives in New Hampshire, her voice cracking with emotion. “My fight is not over. It’s not done for so many other women out there. I want to help them to get what we are entitled to.”

The Pentagon has been conducting a high-profile campaign to prevent sexual attacks and punish offenders amid concerns that defense officials neglected these assaults for years.

But advocacy groups say VA has been slow to adjust to the rising number of women in the military.

Some health centers, for instance, only recently opened female restrooms. Women who go to VA centers for treatment say they are routinely asked whether they are waiting for their husbands or are lost. And while there are a few showcase centers for female veterans, a third of VA medical centers lack a gynecologist on staff…

Women voluntarily join an army they know is male dominated and holds a warrior mentality. They demand co-habitation and training with the men, but with amends and considerations for the female frame. They “tease” the men just with their presence in the barracks and close quarters and accommodations have to be made, even in combat situations, for the female and her “privacy”.

What insanity, and then the men, most of whom have never had any formal moral upbringing, no religious upbringing, coming from a Marxist indoctrinated public school system, are thrown into near co-habitation and close quarters with women who have a feminist mentality, who reject Christian morality and laws in general, both thrown into the arena of male testosterone and female estrogen, the clashing of natural attraction – and then they want to claim – PTSD – WOW.

And to top it all off, the entry of women into the ground or warrior units, has resulted in a ongoing dumbing down of male combat training, and the deliberate weakening of our military.

Women think subjectively, that is they think according to the ways things might be in accordance with their own vision. Men think objectively, the way things are and indicate what is to come. The promotion of women into leadership positions, commanding men and combat operations, training and units, has and is, debilitating our military and its preparedness.