Veterans conference examines military sexual trauma

How many more years does it take to fix this and end military sexual assaults?

2007
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and women after sexual attacks

2008
Female veterans report more sexual, mental trauma

2009
DoD: Sexual assault reports increased in 2008

You can find more under military sexual assaults and discover how many of these reports have come out claiming they were doing something about all of this, but the truth is, what they have done, just like everything else, has not worked.

So here we go again.

Veterans conference examines military sexual trauma
Seacoast Online
By Suzanne Laurent
October 19, 2013

PORTSMOUTH — It's a topic that is usually at the end of the day, pushed back at the bottom of the agenda during conferences for veterans, said Jo Moncher, bureau chief of community based military programs with the state's Department of Health and Human Services.

Moncher was talking about military sexual trauma, or MST, a real problem that is under-reported. “Today, it's up high on the agenda,” she said at the fourth annual Seacoast Veterans Conference held Saturday at Service Credit Union's corporate office on Lafayette Road.

She turned the floor over to Judith Lambert-Messier, a licensed social worker and military sexual trauma coordinator at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Manchester.

“We've been collecting statistics for the past 10 years,” Lambert-Messier said. “But this is not a new problem. We've seen veterans from their mid-20s to their 80s, so it goes back at least 60 years.”

About one in five women and one to two out of 100 men have told their veterans health care provider that they experienced sexual trauma in the military.

“Although women experience MST in higher proportions than do men, because of the large number of men in the military there are significant numbers of men and women who have experienced this,” Lambert-Messier said. “In New Hampshire, there are an equal number of men and women that are MST survivors.”

She said most victims are very young in their late teens or early 20s and that it mostly goes unreported because of fear of repercussions.
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