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For the third time in four months, a female soldier based at Fort Bragg is dead, and a husband or lover is charged with murder — leading critics to demand the home base of the Army's elite soldiers exert "control over their troops" and address domestic violence.
snip..."The number of military women being killed in North Carolina in the last eight months is horrific," said retired Army Col. Ann Wright, a former State Department diplomat who once served at Fort Bragg and is now a peace activist. "The Marine Corps and the Army needs to very quickly show leadership and control over their troops."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_U6VgurHAbo94NPv9xntHXxSaDwD93J9M2O0
Military is more or less saying not our problem.
This is an article from The New York Times, Feb. 2008. Before the NC murders. It outlines the issues of military DV, the effect of war on the homelife, the military attitude toward DV, and the promises they have made toward correcting it along with the status of those promises. It also discusses child fatalities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/us/15vets.html
Snip...A Call to Action
Within a six-week period in 2002, three Special Forces sergeants returned from Afghanistan and murdered their wives at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Two immediately turned their guns on themselves; the third hanged himself in a jail cell. A fourth soldier at the same Army base also killed his wife during those six weeks.
At the beginning of this wartime period, the cluster of murder-suicides set off alarms about the possible link between combat tours and domestic violence, a link supported by a study published that year in the journal Military Medicine. The killings also reinvigorated the concerns about military domestic violence that had led to the formation of the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence two years earlier.
National attention to the subject was short-lived. But an examination by The Times found more than 150 cases of fatal domestic violence or child abuse in the United States involving service members and new veterans during the wartime period that began in October 2001 with the invasion of Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/us/15vets.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin
snip..."The number of military women being killed in North Carolina in the last eight months is horrific," said retired Army Col. Ann Wright, a former State Department diplomat who once served at Fort Bragg and is now a peace activist. "The Marine Corps and the Army needs to very quickly show leadership and control over their troops."
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i_U6VgurHAbo94NPv9xntHXxSaDwD93J9M2O0
Military is more or less saying not our problem.
This is an article from The New York Times, Feb. 2008. Before the NC murders. It outlines the issues of military DV, the effect of war on the homelife, the military attitude toward DV, and the promises they have made toward correcting it along with the status of those promises. It also discusses child fatalities.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/us/15vets.html
Snip...A Call to Action
Within a six-week period in 2002, three Special Forces sergeants returned from Afghanistan and murdered their wives at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Two immediately turned their guns on themselves; the third hanged himself in a jail cell. A fourth soldier at the same Army base also killed his wife during those six weeks.
At the beginning of this wartime period, the cluster of murder-suicides set off alarms about the possible link between combat tours and domestic violence, a link supported by a study published that year in the journal Military Medicine. The killings also reinvigorated the concerns about military domestic violence that had led to the formation of the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence two years earlier.
National attention to the subject was short-lived. But an examination by The Times found more than 150 cases of fatal domestic violence or child abuse in the United States involving service members and new veterans during the wartime period that began in October 2001 with the invasion of Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/us/15vets.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2&oref=slogin
