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Originally Posted by afchic
Take this next rant for what it is worth, just my opinion.
The DoD has gone about addressing this problem all wrong. How many of you men have sat through the mandatory sexual harassment training, and came out feeling as if the military thought you were a piece of shit?
How many of you women out there have sat through the same class and came out feeling like the military cast you as a victim?
We don't need annual sexual harrassment training, in my estimation. What we need to emphasize is that we are brothers and sisters in arms, and anything that jeapordizes that relationship not only brings shame upon the military as a whole, but demoralizes us as a unit.
If we take that route, and talk about how we can work together as a team, vs the us vs them mentality that permeates the current training, maybe we would go a long way to solving the rape problem. And it may have the added benefit of alleviating the number of cases in which women cry wolf.
Maybe I am giving us to much credit. There are a lot of kids in uniform these days. But team cohesion is what we need, and if we can teach them that, just maybe.....
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I have been out a long while, but I agree -- the "awareness" route is frankly embarrassing and demeaning for all. For me, it was disappointing to find out that my biggest danger was a fellow soldier. Unit cohesiveness is a far stronger message.
I will say that I never had an issue with SF and (compared to some of the posts I read) I never had an SF guy question my capability. While I did not have to handle a 50cal more than a few times, I certainly could and those great guys from 10th Group had no trouble believing it.
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