Female Veterans Slam VA Citing Lack of Services

[Monkeyman]

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

[lazer47]

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...

[orleans]

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