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more about #womeninthemilitary more comments → Lou: There may not have been many female role models when Col. McDonald was at WP, but now there are some strong female instructors. Female instructors no... more » BearDownCBears: I'm not trying to be obnoxious here, but I wonder things would be different if it were left up to Tom Ricks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con... more » GirlFailer: I always felt that attending a military college like West Point would be beneficial as a woman if only to prepare you for life out in the fleet. It's ... more » bluebirdred: My husband attended college at a military school that didn't allow women until forced to by court order in 1995. It's a tough spartan life for anyone ... more » CurtCole: Without role models I guess you'll just have to make you own kind of music, it's more fun anyway. more » Adreamerdreaming: My favorite line - "Well, I don't know what it's like to be a man at West Point... " Snarky and lovely. more » Dictator for Life: One of my law school friends married into the 82nd Airborne while we were in school. She went from having no opinion on women in the military to bein... more » Ipomoea: Megan, thank you for doing this interview, and Helen, thank you for bringing attention to this ongoing situation. The only way it will change is if we... more » LeanderOryx: As usual, you are all a bunch of civilians that don't know what the fuck you are talking about. The military, no matter what branch, is a microcosm of... more » Jack_Burton: MEGAN: Especially if you're the only woman in a unit, and the commander is told there's been a sexual assault, it's pretty clear... HELEN: Although, a... more » stacyinbean: I saw one of those Army commercials the other day with a young girl in it, talking to her mother about joining. The first thing I thought to myself wa... more » NefariousNewt: As someone mention earlier in the week, the military tends to be filled with a crop of less-than-desirable types that the military tries to mold into ... more » merv: Over and over and over you hear veterans say, "No one understands me when I'm at home," because the military is so secretive and soldiers are so secre... more » LucyDriftwood: This was a great article. I served in the military for 4 years and saw a several cases of sexual assault between men and women. I saw ZERO of the male... more » greengrey: I have an idea. At every recruiting center, they should be REQUIRED to tell women how likely it is that they'll be raped. They should also be required... more » -
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Go West, Young Woman
"Was it harder to be a woman at West Point? Well, I don't know what it's like to be a man at West Point... Without role models, women didn't know what "right" looked like."- Colonel Deborah McDonald. [Readers Digest] -
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Helen Benedict On Sexual Assault In The Military (And How To Stop It)
Helen Benedict, author of the new book The Lonely Soldier, believes strongly that the U.S. military has an obligation to do far, far better by the women who join its ranks.
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