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Monday, November 30, 2020

“We did not sign up to be raped”: Women veterans fight back against military sexual trauma ~~ Johnnie Lewis

https://www.workers.org/2020/11/52749/

~~posted for Collectivist ~~ 

This month two veterans, represented by the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Service Clinic, won a lawsuit against the U.S. Army for giving “bad paper” discharges to veterans with mental health diagnoses. The discharges include women victims of sexual assault, abuse and harassment, known collectively as Military Sexual Trauma (MST). Additionally, the lawsuit supported all veterans with diagnoses of traumatic brain injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder who were given bad paper discharges. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/11/18/army-agrees-review-thousands-of-bad-paper-discharges-part-of-lawsuit-settlement.html