Letters to the Editor
When Officers Aren’t Gentlemen Thank you for the recent article on women in the military and the sexual harassment they endure (“A Peculiar Version of Friendly Fire,” by Traci Hukill, January...
...Thea Deley via e-mail In her article, Hukill uses the term “command rape” to describe an incident in which a superior allegedly sexually assaulted enlisted personnel...
...The case law resulting from these court martials expanded the definition of rape and carnal knowledge within Article 120 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice...
...The appropriate terminology is “abuse of power rape...
...Even the PX bookstores carried comic books denigrating women...
...Misogyny pervaded everything...
...The terminology does not represent terms utilized in the field of sexual assault prevention or within the military community...
...Although I have many fond memories of those times, I also remember being terrified of American GIs when I was a little girl...
...The terminology was defined by military case law following the court martials associated with Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland, in the late 1990s...
...My father served in the Army for twenty years so I grew up on military bases...
...When Officers Aren’t Gentlemen Thank you for the recent article on women in the military and the sexual harassment they endure (“A Peculiar Version of Friendly Fire,” by Traci Hukill, January issue...
...Anita Sanchez Director of Communications, The Miles Foundation, Newtown, Connecticut...
...Sometimes they would whistle or leer or make crude sexual comments I was too young then to understand...
Vol. 71 • March 2007 • No. 3
