Female Veterans Face Multiple Challenges
Veteran housing policy creates "a lack of options" for women with children. Female combat veterans are also affected by combat trauma and sexual harassment, the Marine Corps Times reports.
U.S. Army soldiers from multiple unit's attending the Female Engagement Team Training program receive a demonstration on how to search Afghan females at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, May 25, 2011.
Pfc. Alicia Brand
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Current veteran housing policy does not fully consider women vets or their children, the Marine Corps Times reports. The majority of housing for women veterans does not allow children or limits the age or number of children.
Many homeless female veterans are single mothers.
Nearly 20 percent of female veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Among women surveyed, about six percent reported incidents of sexual harassment in the past five years.
Read more at the Marine Corps Times.
Mr Johnson
8:42 pm on Friday, August 17, 2012
oh my lord...what next. the sexual harrasment, yes it exists, however unfornuate it may be. I have to tell ya, some of these gals CANT wait to go on deployment...its like summer camp to many of them...guys are all over this as well...its a big friggin soap opera in lots of camps. Do you think guys only put "notches" on their headboards....think again. Many divorces take place mid deployment, only to find out that He / she hooked up with a co-worker while deployed....Happens back home too.
24 hour watches in many area's, girl on girl, guy on girls.
I am just venting a little, women do not belong in the field, it really does affect mission readiness with these games
Libi Uremovic
9:36 am on Saturday, August 18, 2012
they should require all military to take the same shot the marines take during training so they can't get an erection...
the problem isn't women and gays mr johnson ...the problem is the hetero men that have to dominate others to find worth in themselves....
Libi Uremovic
9:38 am on Saturday, August 18, 2012
you need to stop reading your wife and daughters' diaries mr johnson....not every woman is a whore ...just the ones that would associate themselves with someone like you...
Donny Gamble
8:59 am on Saturday, August 18, 2012
I can't believe that we are in 2012 still talking about sexual harassment and discrimination against women. When will the U.S. ever learn to start treating people as equal. Women have the same rights and capabilities as men and they should get the same salaries and treatment as men.
Donny Gamble
http://assistanceforsinglemothers.com
Libi Uremovic
9:42 am on Saturday, August 18, 2012
"...When will the U.S. ever learn..."
it's nothing exclusive to the states....hetero men have raped and pillaged whenever they could get away with it throughout history...
i used to think 'women and children first' was just an expression, but now i realize that it's a sign that had to be physically posted ...
...we need to post the sign again...
Ryan Smith
4:47 pm on Saturday, August 18, 2012
Okay, folks, how about we leave the personal attacks and the sexism at the door?
Daniel Nabors Jr.
5:42 pm on Saturday, August 18, 2012
I shared this on http://www.facebook.com/DanielNaborsJr I hope some of my team will assist in this effort! This issue needs to rise up the list and be taken care of!
Daniel Nabors Jr.
3:20 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
I have some comments about this article from Military Wives in this area at the Military Gifting Center on Facebook.com/DanielNaborsJr