well now the msm jumped on the bandwagon

perhaps NOW something can and will be done? perhaps one or two of those meetings where people testify before congress will happen. then another bunch of people will talk about it and meet and finally after months or years decide women getting harassed and assaulted in the military (or anywhere) is not a GOOD thing. of course almost nothing will be done (as usual). seems like this has been documented FOR YEARS. yet, it's not only still going on, it's being swept under the rug.
(take lavena johnson for example. her parents were told she committed suicide. while even a kindergartner could determine she was sexually assaulted and then murdered. what an insult to not only the parents of a war hero BUT THE WAR HERO HERSELF)

from 2004 One Hundred Twelve Women Assaulted in Iraq, Afghanistan

from 2006

Military Hides Cause of Women Soldiers' Deaths

i have NO idea when this article came out Women assaulted in military suffer depression, alcohol problems

from 2007

The private war of women soldier

from 2003 Sexual Assault Pervasive in Military, Experts Say

from august 2008

Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?

from 2003 Factors Associated With Women’s Risk of
Rape in the Military Environment

from 2007

Report: Sexual assault of women soldiers on rise in US military

from 2005

Violence Against Women in the Military

from 2007 Scandal Bigger than Walter Reed
The Rape, Assault and Harassment of Women in the Military
from july 2008

Women in Military Struggle to Overcome Sexual Assault

from 2007

The private war of women soldiers

from 2006 Military recruiters sexually assaulting young women

i'll stop now, but i could post links ALL day. anyone notice a pattern?

does anyone know why new articles (like the following) keep appearing daily? SHOULDN'T SOMETHING HAVE BEEN DONE ALREADY? SHOULDN'T IT?

and from yesterday:

Alarming Sex Assault Rate Found Among Vets

CBS Evening News: Records Show 1 In 7 Female Iraq And Afghanistan Veterans Treated By The VA Suffered Sexual Trauma

(CBS) For a soldier, the wounds of war can be felt long after a tour of duty ends, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports, and not all of them are inflicted by the enemy. Tuesday, researchers reported that an alarming number of female soldiers have sought treatment for sexual assault committed by fellow soldiers.

A Veterans Administration study found that one in seven female veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan seeking medical care from the VA suffered sexual trauma - everything from harassment to rape.

Medical records of 125,000 war veterans, both men and women, showed 15 percent reported sexual trauma. That works out to nearly 2,600 veterans, almost all women.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, since the study covered only a fraction of the 870,000 veterans who have fought - and none still on active duty.

"I do feel that it is much higher than that, and if they could get the records of all the women that have returned that had been sexually assaulted, those afraid to come in, they would find that it's a lot higher," said Wanda Story.

Story, who was raped twice during her military service 20 years ago, now heads the United Female Veterans of America. ................

this isn't about kbr

UPDATE: (a couple of hours after i posted the story): kbr has looked at this posting at least once - although i suspect more than once. i could only identify their isp once though. at any rate, INSTEAD OF LOOKING AT BLOG POSTS ABOUT PFC LAVENA JOHNSON (they hit on the kbr i'm sure. i don't think they give a flying fuck about pfc lavena johnson). why don't you hire some private investigators to find out what really happened to pfc lavena johnson AND IF ONE OF YOUR EMPLOYEES WAS RESPONSIBLE for her murder. don't you want to know? if one of your employees WAS indeed responsible (i can't say what i really want to say here and we all know it) don't you want to make them accountable? don't you want to apologize to the united states of america? don't you want to do ANYTHING but protect your name and your contracts? don't any of you have beating hearts?

although it is THE first time i have read their name in connection to the death of lavena johnson. every story i've read (and i've read MOST of them out there) mention her body was either dragged from the tent of a "contractor" (now of course i KNEW who the contractor had to be, they were just always nameless) to her own tent or found in the tent of that contractor. the military claims pfc johnson shot herself, committed suicide. well i suppose it's possible after all, pigs do fly. pfc johnson's body had bite marks on it. it was bruised. her teeth were knocked out. her genitals were burned with what appears to be acid. the angle of the bullet wound is all wrong (for suicide that is) and then after she did all that to herself she set her tent on fire (or the contractors tent). yup, suicide all right.

the military still insists this was a suicide.

what this posting IS about is justice for heroes. specifically WOMEN (this time, but all heroes over all)

pfc johnson was raped and murdered. if i was the president of the united states of america i would DEMAND answers and now. he doesn't because he doesn't care. we should be screaming from our rooftops for justice. for pfc lavena johnson, for ALL. we should NOT accept lies from the d o d, from the military, from our king or from his good ol' white boy network. this is OUR country. why are we allowing this to happen?

the article below mentions the following women:
Army Spc. Suzanne Swift
Army Pfc. LaVena Johnson,
Army Pfc. Tina Priest
Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach
Red Cross employee Ingrid Torres

Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?

by: Col. Ann Wright, Truthdig
There was quite a struggle in Congress this week. The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing on sexual assault in the military. Rep. John Tierney, chair of the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, angrily dismissed Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Michael Dominguez from the hearing when Dominguez said that he, the DoD chief of legislative affairs and the chief of public affairs, had ordered Dr. Kaye Whitley, chief of SAPRO, to refuse to honor the subpoena issued by the subcommittee for her appearance. Full committee Chairman Henry Waxman called the DoD's decision to prevent Whitley from testifying "ridiculous and indicating DoD is covering something up." It could also place Whitley in contempt of Congress. Rep. Christopher Shays said the DoD's decision was "foolish." ..........

................Rep. Elijah Cummings joined Rep. Waxman in speaking of cover-ups. Cummings raised the cases of military women who had been sexually assaulted before dying in "non-combat incidents." He spoke specifically about Army Pfc. LaVena Johnson, who was found beaten and dead of a gunshot wound at Balad Air Base, Iraq, in a burning tent owned by the contractor KBR. Her parents suspected that Johnson had been murdered and that the homicide was being covered up by the Army, which deemed the death a suicide............

.............Of the 2,212 reported rapes in the military in 2007, only 8 percent of the cases ended in court-martial of the perpetrator, while the rate of prosecution in civilian courts is 40 percent..........

oh and the parents of pfc lavena johnson STILL aren't hearing the truth from the military