"The Invisible War" (2012)

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2120152/

I just rented this via iTunes.
Holy shit!
Summary: Want a long career as a serial rapist with negligible chance of being punished? Go in the military. If your victims are naive enough to report it, they will be punished and discharged.

"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.

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Also available via Netflix streaming and DVD.

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Interesting. thanks

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2120152/

I just rented this via iTunes.
Holy shit!
Summary: Want a long career as a serial rapist with negligible chance of being punished? Go in the military. If your victims are naive enough to report it, they will be punished and discharged.

It was too important to fixate about gays in the military than worry about rapist.

BTW, I thought because of Gay servicemen our combat readiness was suppose to be severely degraded by now.

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I have met several woman that had similar experiences in the military. Despicable.
The Romans purposely put the Gays in their military. They fought harder than the straights to save their fellow man.

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The Romans purposely put the Gays in their military. They fought harder than the straights to save their fellow man.

You mean the ancient Greeks, particularly the Spartans.
In ancient Rome of that time, homosexual acts were technically prohibited.

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On this recommendation I ended up watching it last night. The story as it was shown I think was best summarized at the end that for any woman or man that reports sexual assault the chances or their attacker seeing a court marshal were only about 1 in 15, the odds of their attacker seeing jail time was only around 1 in 20 and with an estimated 500,000 sexual assaults in the military over the last 30 years only around 1000 of the attackers were ever in jail. You were more likely to get injured in battle than you were of getting punished for any sort of sexual assault or rape that you were charged with.

I did find it interesting that Commanders in the field had the ability to dismiss the charges against the attackers directly with out having to wait on NCIS or JAG to investigate or move forward with a case. If I remember right our of 2700+ charges in 2009 over 1500 were dismissed at the command level. Another issue was the reporting of the assaults had to follow a very formal chain of command, this was leading to a situation that around 25% of all assaults were not being reported since the attacker was the one the report needed filed to and another 15% were never filed since the attacker was a friend of the person that the report needed filed with. It did make me angry when the Brigadier General in charge of dealing with sexual assaults for the Army was interviewed and said essentially "If you don't feel that you can report it a crime via your chain of command call your congressman". I'm sure that is going to go well to have to contact a congressman, have them figure out what is going on and then to have them via a hearing or committee try and get an investigation started for an individual that way. That is giving someone a brush off treatment if there was ever one.

When women are told "If the charges are dismissed you will be charged with filing a false report and will be demoted or dishonorably discharged" that is just creating an atmosphere of intimidation that no one is willing to risk reporting a crime since until middle of 2012 it was up to the commanders anywhere in the chain of command that could dismiss the case and that would trigger charges back against the woman. If commanders could have it reflect that they were unable to control their subordinates if thy had reports of sexual assault in a unit I could easily see the push to sweep those allegations under the rug so that the commanders career was not going to be impacted by the actions of some enlisted member that would be gone in another year or two.

This was an interesting documentary that shows that the issues from Tailhook all the way back in 1991 have not been addressed at all and in fact it seems that the only thing they have done in the mean time are some PSA videos, some posters that say "Wait until shes sober" and allowing the "Boys will be Boys" attitude to persist by not aggressively investigating all claims and having channels that places independent parties into the process.

I would highly recommend this to any female that was about to enlist in any branch of the military to make sure they knew of these issues.

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It's really surprising they can get any to join the military. First off they're doing to soldiers what they did in Vietnam. Dropping off young kids so they can be shot at and killed for no good reason when the end game is cheap labor making shirts for US consumption. The new wars are they get shot at but don't die and are left with life long disabilities. Hundreds of thousands of returning vets are disabled and gov't cares little. These rape cases are horrible, but people keep signing up.

IT MUST BE THE DOD ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN THAT MAKES BEING A SOLDIER SOMETHING DESIRABLE.