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Army veteran Katie Weber, who lives in Santa Rosa, Calif., is a survivor of military sexual trauma who now spends most of her time doing MST advocacy.
WASHINGTON – Thousands of female veterans are struggling to get health-care treatment and compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the grounds they suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual trauma in the military. The veterans and their advocates call it “the second battle” – with a bureaucracy they say is stuck in the past.
Judy Atwood-Bell was just a 19-year-old Army private when she said she was locked inside a barracks room at Fort Devens in Massachusetts, forced to the cold floor and raped by a fellow solider.
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