Sara Rich, the mother of Suzanne Swift, sat down with Truthout's Geoffrey Millard to discuss the command rape her daughter experienced while stationed in Iraq during 2004-2005. Sara is joined by retired Army Colonel Ann Wright, who provides contextual insight into the military.
@thejays0330 sick fucks!
TheFuryOfMrsMarvel 1 week ago
I'm so glad this is coming out. If everyone bands together to speak out about this it will have to have an impact. I commend your bravery, I really do. I have dealt with this at work but I can quit a job or just go home. You can't, and abusers know it. Despicable. Their souls are fractured in my opinion. Stay true and don't give up. Find others like you to get support. Good luck. I'll be watching what happens.
theplentysense 1 month ago
I was military police too, this happened over and over to me! I was even sexually assaulted. Noone pays for the crime,except the victim!
thejays0330 3 months ago
I too have been victimized by a superior ranking NCO at Fort Leonard Wood MO, during Basic Training my Drill SSG Demetrius Busby Raped while I was in "Security holdover status" 20 years ago. I didn't even know the term Military Sexual Trauma existed until reading a random blog and seeing that my Drill Instructor had retired after 24 years and became and J.R.O.T.C. Instructor in Sarasota Florida and had abused 7 of his cadets.
84thEngineers 1 year ago
@melo0114 this shit is so fuck up,i was a marine and in was in 08 right be for the big grunt drop to afgan my civ wife was raped by a marine i know so the said it was adulatory not rape beecuz she knoe him for all of 4 hours!and that she has no right to her case becuz it was on base .
thestmal 1 year ago
whats really fucked up is that shit is true cause guys don't fucken want to belive me when i stay stay away from them.
y2blas 2 years ago
try being a man and have to deal with being assaulted by another man. It fuck you life up forever. two on one.
carl1124 2 years ago
Good point you made there. I don't know why these brainless fucks spammed your comment.
eviltreemonster 3 years ago
This is very sad.
karr1111 3 years ago
I was assaulted my first week in Afghanistan by another soldier from the National Guard while doing my laundry. I never asked for it, my chain of command did the right thing and had the guy investigated and punished. It was my CO who made me feel like it was my fault and continued to harass me and bully me into staying in my room all the time. I joined to get away from an abussive ex husband and make a new begining for my kids and myself. How would a man like it if he was saudimized?
melo0114 3 years ago