Coming from a family of military professionals who served, I love the idea of serving because you get to travel and you get to experience different things. I think if the culture could change and actually respect human rights....
I understand that you can't control every single person who comes into the military and you can't judge them when they first come in, but the fact is that after my injury, I was treated like a criminal. I was treated like I was the bad person because I wouldn't change my story to meet their mandates. Instead of treating me like a human being, they treated me like an animal and kept me in basically a sea can until I was to go home because I wouldn't change my story to what they wanted it to be. They threatened me by saying I could keep my employment as long as I changed my story to whatever brackets of hazing they considered my assault. They consider it as a hazing, like a ritual. They didn't consider it a sexual assault. During the last three weeks of my basic training, before I was to go back home, while I was being contained, they threatened my life and they showed me all those things.
If they can change and hold people accountable and treat people fairly and provide essential medical treatment after an assault.... If I had been provided a rape kit at the time of my assault, they would never have questioned my injuries, because there would be proof and evidence and I could charge somebody criminally. Because they destroyed evidence and they did these things, I couldn't come forward with any information because they were the ones who hurt me.