The Military's Secret Shame

[Art Mann]

Greg Jeloudov was 35 and new to America when he decided to join the Army. Like most soldiers, he was driven by both patriotism for his adopted homeland and the pragmatic notion that the military could be a first step in a career that would enable him to provide for his new family.

Instead, Jeloudov arrived at Fort Benning, Ga., for basic training in May 2009, in the middle of the economic crisis and rising xenophobia. The soldiers in his unit, responding to his Russian accent and New York City address, called him a “champagne socialist” and a “commie faggot.” He was, he told NEWSWEEK, “in the middle of the viper’s pit.”

Less than two weeks after arriving on base, he was gang-raped in the barracks by men who said they were showing him who was in charge of the United States. When he reported the attack to unit commanders, he says they told him, “It must have been your fault. You must have provoked them.”

What happened to Jeloudov is a part of life in the armed forces that hardly anyone talks about: male-on-male sexual assault. In the staunchly traditional military culture, it’s an ugly secret, kept hidden by layers of personal shame and official denial.

Read the full story here.

 

[JT13]

Terrible story, very disheartening.
I wonder how many of these horror stories are untold?

 

[Jesus Quintana]

"Winston Churchill famously said, "The real traditions of the British Navy are rum, buggery and the lash." The same was apparently true for the Army as well."

 

[Dracula]

Greg Jeloudov was 35 and new to America when he decided to join the Army. Like most soldiers, he was driven by both patriotism for his adopted homeland and the pragmatic notion that the military could be a first step in a career that would enable him to provide for his new family.

Instead, Jeloudov arrived at Fort Benning, Ga., for basic training in May 2009, in the middle of the economic crisis and rising xenophobia. The soldiers in his unit, responding to his Russian accent and New York City address, called him a “champagne socialist” and a “commie faggot.” He was, he told NEWSWEEK, “in the middle of the viper’s pit.”

Less than two weeks after arriving on base, he was gang-raped in the barracks by men who said they were showing him who was in charge of the United States. When he reported the attack to unit commanders, he says they told him, “It must have been your fault. You must have provoked them.”

What happened to Jeloudov is a part of life in the armed forces that hardly anyone talks about: male-on-male sexual assault. In the staunchly traditional military culture, it’s an ugly secret, kept hidden by layers of personal shame and official denial.

Read the full story here.

Joining the army is like being in jail.

You get screwed either way.

 

[peace]

Very True Dracula.....also male -on-male sexual assault is such a taboo issue that no one wants to talk about it regardless if you are in the army or elsewhere. Yet the victims (noone is at fault here) continue to suffer while their predators remain free at large....

 

[tboy]

You have to admit, the predators have balls. Assaulting someone with all that hardware lying around?

The first thing I'd do is appropriate a frag grenade, wrap it in electrical tape, pull the pin, put it in a coffeecan filled with gasoline under his bed....you put the plastic lid back on the can so he can't smell the gas.....

(the gas loosens the tape, releasing the pin on the grenade and then sometime in the wee hours of the morning....BOOOM)

 

[Nothingtodo]

You have to admit, the predators have balls. Assaulting someone with all that hardware lying around?

The first thing I'd do is appropriate a frag grenade, wrap it in electrical tape, pull the pin, put it in a coffeecan filled with gasoline under his bed....you put the plastic lid back on the can so he can't smell the gas.....

(the gas loosens the tape, releasing the pin on the grenade and then sometime in the wee hours of the morning....BOOOM)

Fuck you are nasty. Don't ever want to piss you off.

 

[tboy]

^^^ tell that to chunkyfuck lol

Gang rape me? you are in for a world of hurt.........

 

[Bubba]

^^^ tell that to chunkyfuck lol

Gang rape me? you are in for a world of hurt.........

Same here. You touch me where the sun don't shine and will make sure yours will shine.

 

[Ang]

You have to admit, the predators have balls. Assaulting someone with all that hardware lying around?

The first thing I'd do is appropriate a frag grenade, wrap it in electrical tape, pull the pin, put it in a coffeecan filled with gasoline under his bed....you put the plastic lid back on the can so he can't smell the gas.....

(the gas loosens the tape, releasing the pin on the grenade and then sometime in the wee hours of the morning....BOOOM)

Sounds like you've really thought this through :shock::shock:

 

[tboy]

Sounds like you've really thought this through :shock::shock:

Naw, I learned that trick from a book on vietnam. The grunts would do that to an LT or XO who was needlessly and foolishly sending them out to die.

It is pretty well known that the higher ups would put officers who had no idea wtf they were doing out in the field and ended up getting a lot of soldiers killed needlessly.

There were specific times the latrine was "officers only" and that was prime time....they'd put it next to the drum under the seat or reach under the edge of the tent and put it under their cot.....then a few hours later, when the culprit is nowhere to be found, ka boom...no more bonehead officer. Hey don't look at me, it must have been a random mortar.........

 

[peace]

You have to admit, the predators have balls. Assaulting someone with all that hardware lying around?

The first thing I'd do is appropriate a frag grenade, wrap it in electrical tape, pull the pin, put it in a coffeecan filled with gasoline under his bed....you put the plastic lid back on the can so he can't smell the gas.....

(the gas loosens the tape, releasing the pin on the grenade and then sometime in the wee hours of the morning....BOOOM)

uhmmmm....well theres the pedophilebuster and this approach of yours...I m all for it. In the meantime, we need to set up needed support centres for male victims. There are so many support services for female victims (they deserve them!) yet there are very few out there for men.