This post has been scrubbed from the internet. And if we were Service Women’s Action Network, we’d be afraid of the public finding out that survivors of military crime are not impressed with them pushing women in combat roles before we even had a plan to prevent crime, murder and suicide. Our lower enlisted service members are isolated and have nowhere to turn if they are in another country with an offender and a chain of command who doesn’t give a f–k. A survey completed at the time indicated the majority of women in the military DID NOT want to be forced into combat roles due to existing issues in combat support roles and right here in the good ole United States of America where the majority of military crime and non combat deaths occur.
*We do not endorse the Service Women’s Action Network. They are not taking a stand for military crime victims who are mostly lower enlisted. They should have called it the “SWAN Military Officer’s Corporate Ladder Climb and Veteran Benefits Summit”
One spring day on Capitol Hill,
Came a group of survivors with a very strong will.
They went to the House to talk to the man,
To tell him to get a new plan.
The days of old have come and gone,
It’s time to make right all the wrongs.
All they ask is to make it right,
So they can sleep at night.
220 came this good day
Making changes for many more survivors
It’s the American way.
Truth and justice
It’s all we want.
Just listen to us.
by Lee E. Norris
This was not the summit we were hoping it would be. Not only did we meet some unsavory characters who would later haunt us and be our downfall but the overall message was one of victimhood and zero hope. We had all we could do to get through it. And when we went outside to take a break, we met a military crime survivor outside the event who was crying because the Marine officer in charge of the event was bullying her. This same SWAN Marine officer veteran later sold me out after I testified to the HASC on January 23, 2013 about sexual assault; she was more interested in becoming famous for suing and forcing military women into all combat roles than she was figuring out how to stop rape, suicide, and murder. Almost every single person we met at this summit turned out to be selfish, fame seeking bullies who didn’t give two f*cks about our active duty trapped in the toxic. No one will talk about the realities of being a military crime victim and the lengths military leadership goes to in an effort to make the person who reported the crimes a.k.a. “the problem” go away. The bullying in the “veteran advocacy” community started at this very first event & never let up; it ended for us in 2014 after mobbing, doxxing, and swatting.
We made a realization after looking back and assessing the situation with these two ineffective agencies: Service Women’s Action Network (SWAN) and Protect Our Defenders (PoD). This 2012 summit occurred around the same time as the release of the Invisible War movie, the introduction of Protect Our Defenders and the STOP Act by Representative Jackie Speier (a sexual assault only piece of legislation passed a decade later prior to Speier’s retirement from Congress as the Vanessa Guillen Act). Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was a rookie Senator at the time of this summit, which included the coordinated efforts by Rep. Spier, PoD, and Claire McCaskill. Senator Gillibrand took interest in the military crime survivor’s HASC testimony in January 2013 and would follow it up with another hearing in March 2013 prior to her introduction of the Military Justice Improvement Act in May 2013. The MJIA was not in PoD and Speier’s plan and they would quickly sell out those who fought for and supported it. They took over the narrative with Gillibrand’s office to return it back to a sexual assault only conversation and bill. This in turn took the emphasis away from the problematic suicides and homicides connected to military sexual assault and domestic violence, another topic these two agencies shut down time and time again.
Related Links:
‘A Place to Begin’ by Jennifer Norris, USAF Retired [Video]
Air National Guard Recruiter Drugs and Rapes New Recruit (1996)
Sexual Assault and Abuse of Authority at Keesler Air Force Base (1997)
Non Combat Deaths of Female Service Members in the U.S. Military (Iraq)
House Armed Services Committee Initiatives Regarding Military Sexual Assault (2011)
Combat Military Rape, Jackie Speier Introduces Legislation and Campaign (2011)
Air Force TSgt. Jennifer Norris Testified Before the HASC in Washington DC (2013)
Defense Department Rescinds Direct Combat Exclusion Rule; Services to Expand Integration of Women into Previously Restricted Occupations and Units (January 24, 2013)
Now That Women Are Cleared For Combat, How About A Rape-Free Workplace? (2013)
Sexual assault victim: “The system is rigged” (May 16, 2013)
“Veteran Advocates” Use Defamatory Newspaper Article & the Small Town Cops Who Created the Narrative to Bounce Medically Retired Service Members Out of the Advocacy Game (2024)
S. 967: Military Justice Improvement Act of 2013 – U.S. Senate Voting Record (March 6, 2014)
Senator Collins speaks in support of efforts to address military sexual assault (March 7, 2014)
The Modus Operandi of Social Justice Warriors (2016)
Vox: The War in Congress Over Rape in the Military, Explained (June 8, 2016)
Trends in Active-Duty Military Deaths Since 2006 | Congressional Research Service (2020)
Military Injustice: Nowhere to Turn, Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide; The Story of Kamisha Block and How U.S. Army Leadership Contributed to Her Death
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