It was quite a bad welcome to the military.
I think the options we have to really look at are training and recruitment.
In regard to the NIS, that was one of the interviews that did not go well for me. That was a person who.... I felt I wasn't being heard. I think we really have to take a step back and retrain these people who are supposed to be taking our stories, dealing with them and investigating them.
We really need to retrain them in how to be a people person. I know they have to be non-partisan, but it gets to the point that when a victim is telling you that they were raped or sexually assaulted, as much as you want to be non-biased, you still have to treat them like a person and not a case file.
When it comes to mental health, the military has to outsource a lot of the time. For example, I'm seeing a civilian therapist. I think the military should honestly take a step back and look at recruiting officers or other people into service who are therapists and psychologists who are actually professionally trained and have a degree to handle the aspects that sexual assault and sexual misconduct envelopes.