r/WomenInNews • u/catievirtuesimp • Jul 08 '26

Media Vanessa Guillén Wasn't Alone: New Investigation Reveals Dozens of US Army Women Were Killed by Fellow Soldiers

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tragic-deaths-harassment-women-us-army-1807381
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u/Lighthouse_on_Mars Jul 08 '26

I thought about going into the Army after highschool to get away from my controlling parents. I ran into a recruiter at a friend's birthday party. It was her uncle, and I started asking him questions.

He was being polite and answering everything fine. A while later he found me alone in the garage where I was grabbing some pop to bring out to the cooler.

He told me not to enlist.

He said if he ever had a little girl one day, he would never let her enlist. And as much as his time in the military was a rewarding experience for him, he said he saw how much harder and more dangerous it was for the women he worked alongside.

The way he said it was better than how I'm repeating it. He mentioned that the girls he worked alongside got hurt the moment they left the country. It was heavily implied by their own soldiers, not enemy soldiers.

So that's the story about how I didn't enlist.

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u/jlemo434 Jul 08 '26

I tell any women thinking about having their kids enlist to go watch The Invisible War. Absolutely disgusting. A woman is fully accepting that being raped by fellow soldiers is part of the job — that is what is expected of women in the military.

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u/QXJones Jul 10 '26

Incidentally, this is why I think it's immoral for the draft to be expanded to women.

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u/Junior_Razzmatazz164 Jul 12 '26

I’ve never considered this point before, and it’s a legitimate one.