"Son, men dont get raped" - article from gq. (triggers)

[JonLP24]

3. I remember early into my deployment

A woman (can't remember what her title was but similar to EO reps) was giving a brief on sexual assaults/rapes and over the course mentioned men have been raped out there too. She mentioned CSC Scania as the base with the most occurrences which seemed very likely. It is very small--pretty much a truck stop. Just a DFAC, MWR, and a trailer w/ pay phones. They also have some shops ran by locals (called "haji shops" by most service-members). Everything shuts down at night except for the MWR and there is barely any lighting and more than usual vegetation, dark corners, and a large truck staging area. It was also the only base that I saw that had condoms in the front of the medic place "sick call". My initial understanding was sex was completely prohibited but a sign in front of the condoms said it was OK between members of the same rank. (it didn't stop a lot of it from happening on any base but CSC Scania seemed to be one of the better places to have sex).

Later on during the deployment, everyone in the unit was given a "rape whistle". At the time, I believe the female soldiers were on the road so it was just about a squad number of men in our platoon when they were being handed out. Pretty much all of them laughed at the idea that they would need a rape whistle but everyone was to be given one. I personally left mine in my locker.