It has been years since I sat down and wrote here. Much has happened, but I am on the downhill side of things so I thought about picking it up again.
So let's start as if there were nothing before this.
I went into the Air Force in 1987. While in I was raped, sexually assaulted (many times), and continually sexually harassed. It would seem like sexual harassment was just a part of my career field. I was a Security Police, Law Enforcement, Canine Handler. This was back when Security Police (now called Security Forces) was separated into two distinct sections - Law Enforcement and Security Specialist. When I was in, and where I was at, no time were the sections allowed to move one to another. If you were Law Enforcement, that is what you were. You could be pulled for the day if needed to security side, but you were LE. If you were security, you stayed that. The only cross over was elite gate guard, that you could be. K-9 was very different.
This was a totally neanderthal testosterone pumped field. We were given a lot of power and with it the ability to abuse it was easy. I was naive. I really believed that all Security Police would not only follow the rules but want to be the best at what they did. It was a wakeup call that not only was this not true, but I never met people who were: rapists, racists, thieves, murders, lying, you name the deplorable behavior and I knew a fellow SP who had done it.
Before I was even in I hit a side of "security" that I pushed out of my mind. In the hotel that we all stayed at, right before going into the MEPS, the security guys were the ones with the alcohol, the ones who had the drugs and the ones who sexually assaulted women who were told they there to protect us. I passed it all off as they were civilians, it would be different in the military - was I so wrong!
