Former sailor details misconduct by SEALs pulled from Iraq

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


James Laporta and Julie Watson, Associated Press
Updated 3:44 pm CDT, Friday, August 21, 2020

SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Navy intelligence specialist Colleen Grace was asleep on a remote air base in Iraq in 2019 when she was woken up by knocking on the door next to her room, and then a voice she recognized.

The voice belonged to a Navy corpsman she knew. He was upset and speaking loudly to the Army colonel who lived next door. Grace heard the corpsman say that a sailor who attended a Fourth of July barbecue had just been raped by a Navy SEAL on the base. The corpsman asked the colonel what to do because the victim was afraid that if she reported the incident, retribution would follow.

“And that’s real,” Grace heard Hospitalman First Class Gustavo Llerenes tell Col. Thomas Collins, a physician’s assistant with the Florida National Guard. “It’s a good ol’ boy’s network.”

She said she heard Collins urge Llerenes to keep his voice down, saying the walls between the rooms were thin.



Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Former-sailor-details-misconduct-by-SEALs-pulled-15503583.php

[iluvtennis]

1. "It's a good ol' boy's network." -- + agree. Just like the Stanford rape case. nt

[COLGATE4]

2. My daughter served as a Navy doctor and was deployed

in the Middle East at a large Marine base. She told me that the biggest complaint among female servicewomen (enlisted and officers) was bladder infection, caused by "keeping it in" so as to not have to go to the head at night and risk being raped.