Female Troops Face Threat Of Sexual Abuse By Comrades As "Moral Waivers" Increase
For Wendy - an idealistic 17-year-old - the military seemed like the answer to her prayers.
“I was mostly going in for school,” Wendy said. “But I was also going in to see the world and travel.”
Deployed as a combat medic, Wendy was thrust into a chaotic and increasingly violent situation. Not long after, she experienced another kind of trauma, when she was assaulted by a fellow soldier in her barracks while she was sleeping.
“He started pushing himself on me,” she said. “And I wasn’t having it. So I started punching him and I actually kicked him in the groin.”
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