Showing posts with label sex assault military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex assault military. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Picking Up the Pieces From Military Sexual Assault

H. Patricia Hynes, Truthout: "Nearly 90 percent of soldiers wounded in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq - some 35,000 - survived battle injuries, thanks to breakthroughs in US state-of-the art military medicine ... Neither the Department of Defense (DoD) nor the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), though, was prepared with the same cutting-edge treatment for the one in three women soldiers in those same wars - an estimated 70,000 - who were sexually assaulted by fellow soldiers."
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