U.S. ARMY, ARMY RESERVE AND ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, 25 YEARS OF SERVICE JERRE, ON SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSAULT, AND HOW SHE MADE IT AS A WOMAN IN THE MILITARY: I’m from a small town in western Oklahoma. My only experience with the military prior to joining is that I was married to an…
U.S. AIR FORCE RESERVIST, 13 YEARS OF SERVICE ASHLEY ON LOVE, ENTITLEMENT, FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS: I was an army brat, my mother was in the army, she joined when I was nine much to the disagreement of my family as no one wanted her to join. It changed our lives. We were from…
AIR FORCE VETERAN , 7 YEARS OF SERVICE LISTEN RAMSAY, ON JOINING THE SERVICE AND A MOTHER’S PREMONITION: ON BEING THE TARGET OF A WITCH HUNT INVESTIGATION, IN OKINAWA, JAPAN: ON BEING SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, AND WHY GOING TO THE POLICE WOULD HAVE COST RAMSAY HER CAREER: I worked in a steel mill out of high school…
NAVY VETERAN, 20 YEARS OF SERVICE DEBORAH ON BEING THE TARGET OF A WITCH HUNT INVESTIGATION: I signed up for the U.S. Navy in 1986. By January 1987 I went to bootcamp. In just about the final week of bootcamp myself and a few other women were pulled aside and questioned for being lesbians….