More and more men are speaking up about being sexually assaulted in the military
is a reminder that sexual violence while serving in the armed forces affects large numbers of men as well. And more men in the military who have been raped and assaulted are speaking up., 10,000 men—largely young and thus with less institutional power and more vulnerable to abuse—are sexually assaulted in the military every year.
“That was surprising to senior leadership,” Mr. Galbreath said. “Everyone was so sure the problem was a women’s issue.” A report published in May indicates that while the share of male victims who come forward has been rising recently, an estimated four out of five still do not report the attack.Whether one believes Galbreath that men being sexually assaulted was a surprise to high-ranking officials , it’s clear from the men interviewed by thethat men being sexually assaulted and raped while in the military is an issue that has been longstanding—and one that military leaders have strenuously attempted to ignore.
Take the case of Jack Williams, who was 18 when in 1966, he was raped while at an Air Force bootcamp by his drill sergeant. “If you report this, no one will believe you,” Williams remembered the sergeant telling him. When he graduated from boot camp, he filed a report.
He told his superiors that he was suicidal, and was sent to a Navy hospital. But when his mental health did not improve after four weeks, the Marine Corps forced him out of the service, noting on his discharge papers that it was for “failure to adapt to military life.”. “If I was injured in training, they would have to treat me and compensate me. But they said this was a pre-existing condition.
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