*** in a military institutional context, a soldier is captured. Captured and constrained by a system of controls that make reporting fraud, waste, abuse, criminal activity, and worse, DIFFICULT if not IMPOSSIBLE for junior officers, NCOs, etc. But the reality: it’s at the company level that many or most of these abuses occur. I will never recommend anyone enter the US military, for a myriad of reasons, but this is one: if you join, whether you like it or not, you are volunteering for torture and abuse, and the cognitive dissonance that comes along for the ride. BTW: whatever logic or deconstruction you want to apply to the Catholic Church abuse cases or the BSA abuse cases, you should apply doubly so to the us military, according to its design.
Rape’y Hegseth: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/21/pete-hegseth-sexual-assault-allegations
Number of cases: https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/us-military-sexual-assault-rates-2-4-higher-govt-estimates-study-says-rcna166490
The Murder: https://www.nytimes.com/article/vanessa-guillen-fort-hood.html
The Pattern: https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/Online-Exclusive/2025-OLE/A-Still-Faltering-System/
