I am a military domestic violence survivor. I endured 15 years of violence that did end up with civilian charges against my perpetrator who was retained by the military and was allowed to continue his career despite having a criminal background in domestic violence. I'm not alone. When I finally reached out to other people, I realized that, especially among veterans' spouses, women or men who served and then found themselves in a military relationship or marriage, there was a high incidence of abuse, whether that was emotional abuse, violence or whatnot. It's a problem that I think has been downplayed over the years. It's not something we talk about. We talk about things happening in the workplace or whatnot, but the fact is that those things are coming home.
When you have a group of people who have this mentality and they go out into the community, say they go to the bar. Let's use an example of a group of men coming off a rough deployment or whatnot, they are going to treat the people, the civilians in that bar, the same way they were treating the women in the workplace, if not worse.