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Military Sexual Assault Paper

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Joining the Unites States military can be something really rewarding, it can provide you with education and a life changing experience at least that is what you are told. Even though these statements are true; when the military is recruiting they hide some information for example sexual assaults among the solders. Sexual assault is any type of forced or coerced sexual contact or behavior that happens without consent. Sexual assault includes rape and attempted rape, child molestation, and sexual harassment or threats (womenshealth.gov).
The Military is a private culture these solders learned to life among each other without their family and friends. They are sent far away to army bases. At a point in life you accept to see the other solders as your family and as friends. This leads them to protect and care about each other. They start seeing each other as brothers and sisters. And that is the entire views of the military to protects and care about each other in order to protect the United States of America.
Being in the military isolates you from the outside world, the real life. There’s not that much to do aside from always talking about wars or being trained. Maybe this is one of the reasons that sexual assaults consumes this culture. This affects the military as well as the outside world this is because …show more content…

For example the some victims released a documentary called the invisible war. The film was directed by Kirby Dicked and produced by Amy Ziering and tanner King Barklow. The films main focus was on sexual assaults within the military in the United States. During the film you learned of many victims of sexual assaults and how their case was handled by the military leaders. Another example is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., she push for sexual assault and rape cases to be handled by independent military prosecutors with expertise in these crimes (Kime,

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