Military Veterans
From research studies, military veterans aren’t well compensated for their service in the military. Not only are they not well compensated, there were many combat soldiers coming home with anger issues, PTSD, depression, and other psychological problems. According to research, half of the homeless individuals are military veterans not just an opinion but it’s a proven fact. Veterans are often not honored, as they should be. Why aren’t they? Another question is why aren’t our veterans not well taken care of?
No health insurance for veterans
First, scientific studies show that working age veterans don’t have health insurance. According to Genevieve Kenney, a senior fellow with the Urban Institute and co-author of the report …show more content…
In 2008, they did a survey; the Government Accountability Office put the rate of sexual assault at 7 percent of women and 2 percent of men. As women make up about 15 percent of the military, most victims are male. “Sexual assault on military men is much more prevalent than people imagine,” said VA psychologist David Sutton, a former Air Force pilot and Vietnam vet who counsels male sexual assault victims at a VA hospital in Big Spring, Texas. “In basic training, it's easy to exert one's power over a young recruit. And even if they do report it, there is an attempt to disregard it or an attempt to cover it up.” (See article: Male (and Female) Rape in the Military http://www.refusingtokill.net/rape/malerapinthearmy.htm). According to the article, Male sexual trauma victims have labeled officers or older enlisted men gang raping recruits, soldiers “sodomizing victims with gun barrels and forcing young enlistees to perform oral sex.” One victim of this dreadful incident was a retired navy diver, Paul Branesky, was raped in the summer 1967during submarine training school in Groton, Connecticut, The four took turns sodomizing him; another victim is Greg Helle, a veterinary hospital administrator from Ankeny, Iowa, said he was raped by his fellow soldiers during his tour in Vietnam. Jack Williams He can't stand to have people come up behind him. That's what his rapist, an assistant drill sergeant in the Air Force, did almost 50 years ago. It happened to Williams 3 times after the third time, at Lackland Air Force Base; Williams tied a few towels together and tried to hang himself. Security guards found him unconscious. A part of Williams died that day in 1966; he was just only 18 the starting point of a man’s life. Military men who are victims in tragedy are frightened to report the sexual occurrences because if they do