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March 18th, 2007
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| Milforum's Postmaster | Post; The Women's Warhttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/ma...=1&oref=slogin This is a long article, but it is a needed read. New York Times Magazine March 18, 2007 By Sara Corbett On the morning of Monday, Jan. 9, 2006, a 21-year-old Army specialist named Suzanne Swift went AWOL. Her unit, the 54th Military Police Company, out of Fort Lewis, Wash., was two days away from leaving for Iraq. Swift and her platoon had been home less than a year, having completed one 12-month tour of duty in February 2005, and now the rumor was that they were headed to Baghdad to run a detention center. The footlockers were packed. The company's 130 soldiers had been granted a weekend leave in order to go where they needed to go, to say whatever goodbyes needed saying. When they reassembled at 7 a.m. that Monday, uniformed and standing in immaculate rows, Specialist Swift, who during the first deployment drove a Humvee on combat patrols near Karbala, was not among them. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/ma...=1&oref=slogin
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March 20th, 2007
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| Tribunus Laticlavius | Wow, that's messed up. I wouldn't think twice about deserting if I were a woman faced with rape AND IEDs.
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March 20th, 2007
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | <groan>
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March 23rd, 2007
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| Optio | Those people who attack or harass their female comrades in the way this article describes are guilty of the worst kind of betrayal.
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March 24th, 2007
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| Primus Pilus | I can't say I blame her for not wanting to go.....I probably would have handled the situation a bit differently though....I think she acted a bit rashly, but then again, if I was in her shoes, I may have reacted in the same way.....
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March 27th, 2007
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| Optio | http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/0...nrape_070322w/ The NYT is so incredibly sloppy in it's reporting and kneejerk acceptance of any and all claims of US military misdeeds that it would be much safer to assume anything covered by that organization is an untruth. |
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March 27th, 2007
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| Milforum's Bouncer | I'm rivetted...
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