The Untold Story of Military Sexual Assault
By MICHAEL F. MATTHEWS, NYT
IT was 1974, and I was 19 years old, serving in the United States Air Force, and I thought I was the only one.
It was early spring and I had finished working in the Minuteman missile complex at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Tired and dirty, I’d just made it to the chow hall before it closed for the evening. On the way back to my dormitory, as dusk fell, I took a shortcut through a construction site.
Something struck my head and I was knocked unconscious. When I came to, there were two men holding me. At first, I thought that an object had fallen and hit me, and that these people were trying to help me. I soon realized they were holding me down. When I struggled, they started punching me in the head. They told me to shut up or they’d kill me.
A third man grabbed my pants and pulled down my underwear.
(More here.)
IT was 1974, and I was 19 years old, serving in the United States Air Force, and I thought I was the only one.
It was early spring and I had finished working in the Minuteman missile complex at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri. Tired and dirty, I’d just made it to the chow hall before it closed for the evening. On the way back to my dormitory, as dusk fell, I took a shortcut through a construction site.
Something struck my head and I was knocked unconscious. When I came to, there were two men holding me. At first, I thought that an object had fallen and hit me, and that these people were trying to help me. I soon realized they were holding me down. When I struggled, they started punching me in the head. They told me to shut up or they’d kill me.
A third man grabbed my pants and pulled down my underwear.
(More here.)
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