Treatment of Women in the U.S. Military - Part 2 - Video PSA

PRESS CONFERENCE IN SUPPORT OF SUZANNE SWIFT Veterans For Peace National Convention, Seattle, WA August 12, 2006 http://www.suzanneswift.org http://www.veteransforpeace.org http://www.couragetoresist.orgwww.ivaw.net "Suzanne Swift is a veteran of the Iraq war who is now held in custody at Fort Lewis, Washington. Suzanne had completed a tour of duty in Iraq, where she was sexually harassed and assaulted at the hands of three of her commanding officers continuing over the course of her entire deployment. Her efforts to report her treatment were met with disrespect and dismissed. Finally, Suzanne suffered a breakdown due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and went absent without leave. She was apprehended in Eugene, OR in June, 2006 and instead of seeing her rapists investigated, Suzanne herself is facing court martial and prison time." "It has now been 74 days since Suzanne was taken in handcuffs to jail and we are still working hard everyday to get her the honorable discharge she deserves. Suzanne has to be one the bravest people I know." Sara Rich, Suzanne's mom. Col. Ann Wright US Army, retired Sharon Kufeldt National Vice-President Veterans For Peace Ellen Barfield National Vice-President Veterans For Peace April Fitzsimmons USAF Intel. Analyst, 85-89 Kelly Dougherty Founding Member of Iraq Veterans Against the War Sara Rich Mother of Suzanne Swift. Public domain video.

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[SuntzuMocro]

i think it's better if we started to treath women with respect instead of engaging in a battle between the both genders.

Women deserve the same respect most of the men get for granted, while some of them don't even deserve it.

[SuminWrongWitU]

This scares me so much, I reconsider entering the military are any similar program like this. But I really can't find a job so...

[SmoothdaHustla]

WTF are they talking about, anytime some female Soldier screams rape the male Soldier gets severely punished before they are kicked out the Army. The Command will punish the male Soldier and then all the males that are the female Soldier's friends kick the rapists ass. Sometimes they're sodomized. =)

[ajazaad]

women should be in army but not as infantry or any other arms dept. They shud be in medical wing only .

One of the reasons is coz they are physically weak than men and wud not be safe in case of hand to hand combat or to bring the wounded back.

All depends on what type of people are joining the army , some are high school dropouts and some are good people .

I wish good luck to women in army and stay safe .



[bima1979ol]

Americans are just fucked as their WTC, Jeez this is the country which is propagating human right, how fucked up they can be!

[xbonnx]

i dont understand why those army men just cant wack off..

[bestUSA12]

omg this is scary

[Tayshaye17]

Hi I'm young and have a very long time..but I want to be in the Army when I get older. I did a ton of research and still never found out if women could go in combat or not? Can someone please tell me?

Thanks(:

[Tyrfingr]

@Sweethorse14 Generally speaking, the military is something to avoid. It's something one shouldn't want to join, it's something one should realize one has to join when times calls for it.

The reason is simply that the environment isn't as nice and romanticised as the advertisments and appearences from a distance is making it out to be. I did 1 year in the Swedish army, but let's face it, it's not the same as being in an army that has been in active wars since it was founded. Reality is ugly.

[Sweethorse14]

i really want to go into the army, i am 13, but when i hear this is really get scared. does this always happened?