Sen. Martha McSally, the first female Air Force fighter pilot to fly in combat, said she was sexually assaulted by a superior officer, and later, when she tried to talk about it to military officials, she 'felt like the system was raping me all over again.'
During a hearing by the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel about prevention and response to sexual assault in the military, Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., recounts her own experience while serving as a colonel in the Air Force, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 6, 2019. WASHINGTON -- Sen.
"I'm deeply affected by that testimony," said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., who has pushed strongly for changes. At a break, McSally hugged others who were appearing before the committee, including a West Point graduate who detailed being raped by her commander. "Think about it -- if you have a predator, if you have a rapist who is serving in uniform, you don't deal with it by keeping a woman out of their unit. Because that predator is going to go assault someone else," she said.
Reports of sexual assaults across the military jumped nearly 10 per cent in 2017 -- a year that also saw an online nude-photo sharing scandal rock the Defence Department. Reporting for 2018 is not yet available. Reports of sexual assaults were also up at the military academies, most at West Point .
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