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Feedback ForumSend us your opinions, reactions, and ideas about Military Sexual TraumaSubmissions for this question are no longer being accepted. Previously submitted comments appear below. Comments may have been edited for content or space. Poster: Janice Comment: Promise that you'll do a follow-up. Poster: Jan Erickson Comment: This program was not shown in the Washington, D.C. area last week. What is the explanation for that? Jan Erickson, National Organization for Women (NOW) Foundation Poster: Ricky Comment: The report was needed, but after the first 10 or so minutes it lost it's strength. Where were the congresspersons, DOD personnel and military leadership to address the issue? You have reported on topics so much stronger in the past. I would have loved to see that previous energy and biting storyline. Poster: Terri Spahr Nelson Comment: Thank you for addressing this ongoing and complex problem in the military. However, I agree with the other comments. As someone who has worked in this field for over 20 years, researched and wrote a book on the topic (before it was in the popular media and public eye), has served as a subject matter expert for DoD on the topic and has heard from countless women and men who were sexually assaulted on active duty by fellow service members, I can attest that although DoD has come a long way with the implementation of the new policies in 2005, they have a long way to go to get to the core of this issue. If MST is truly of importance to DoD, they will put more resources, time and staff into making real and lasting changes. For example, why was the DoD Sexual Assault Task Force in limbo for the past year and is now proceeding with two less members?? Time will tell if DoD is commited to real change with services for victims and court-martials for offenders. In the meantime, service members who have volunteered (and risked their lives) for our country are being mistreated in the most horrific ways. Thank goodness for VA treatment programs on sexual assault, but let's get to the core of the problem before we lose more service members to military sexual trauma. Please keep on reporting on this issue. Media attention is an important avenue to affect change and keep the light on this issue. Thank you! Terri Spahr Nelson, author, For Love of Country: Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the US Military (2002). Poster: Aurora Comment: This is just UNACCEPTABLE that the military, who can stop anything --except bin Laden and his al Qaeda ---has been tacitly approving of that practice by doing little, if anything to correct it. Poster: Anthony Pell Comment: As a former newsman (CBS News), etc., I was horrified how you allowed the segment on sexual assault against women serving our country to veer off into what, in other circumstances, would have been an interesting pathology/treatment segment. Where the hell were you in zooming in on what the Military has apparently basically washed its hands of? Another report on another channel today noted how scared woman are even to report the heinous actions of soldier boys (including soldier officers), and how our army allows its uniformed criminals to go free, creates conditions under which women are deathly afraid to denounce their assailants -- a system that, apparently, puts none of the miscreants in jail (or hangs them out and castrates them, why not?). Why aren't you, NOW, looking into this, rather than ending your report with pap about treatment for the victims (important to have, but, please!)? Poster: Theresa Comment: I hope that the report about Military Sexual Assault makes a difference. But I think it is a shame that this has taken so long to come to light. There has always been sexual assault in the military. There will always be sexual assault in the military until society changes. |
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