Does Policy Endanger Female Soldiers?
Female Troops Face Threat Of Sexual Abuse By Comrades As “Moral Waivers” Increase March 18, 2009 | by Katie Couric (CBS) It’s a potent environment, with female soldiers working – and living – under hostile conditions with their male counterparts. One soldier, who asked us to call him Robert, spent three tours in Iraq as a signal unit leader out of Ft. Lewis in Washington state. “For the female soldiers, it was far harder to adjust,” Robert told CBS News anchor Katie Couric. “Because not only did they have to deal with combat – mortar rounds, rockets, bullets – they also had to put up with male soldiers who were away from their families for a year.” A decorated soldier in his unit, Robert says he went to his Command on many occasions after female soldiers complained of sexual assaults. Nothing was done. “The last thing a commander wants, other than a death in his unit, is sexual harassment, or an assault case, because that makes his unit’s command look bad, Robert said. For Wendy – an i
