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Monkeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 10:44 AM
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Female Veterans Slam VA Citing Lack of Services
Female veterans slam VA citing lack of services Sex Abuse, PTSD among problems.( I can hear them now We were not ready)

It happen at a Christmas party on a U.S. air base in Germany in 1990.

Christen McKinley was a 20-year-old military police officer with the U.S Air Force, six months out of boot camp and eager to prove herself. In a few weeks, her country and its allies would launch the first Gulf War.

She wanted , she says to be one of the boys.

That night, one of the boys, a staff sergeant who was also one of her supervisors, pulled her into a bathroom.

She told him no, she says, but he covered her mouth , pinned her down and raped her.

http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/apr/05/female-veterans-slam-va-citing-lack-services/

This is just one story from a Vet. The VA is not ready and should of been with all the stories from our Ladies in Iraq
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lazer47 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 11:47 AM
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1. Hell!!!!! they aren't ready for the 600,00 vets from Nam
much less this current SNAFU..Good post Brother, I always enjoy the things you post, at the same time they usually get me mad as Hell...
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orleans Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:58 PM
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2. salon had a story up a couple weeks ago
"army deployed seriously injured troops"

fort irwin--

"some had debilitating back injuries"
"..another tent, housing female soldiers with health issues ranging from injuries to pregnancy."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/03/26/fort_irwin/print.html
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