By Donna St. George
How disappointing that this happens to so many women who choose to serve. Can you imagine how many incidents there actually are??????? I don’t blame her for not going back……for a variety of reasons!

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, September 19, 2006; Page A01

EUGENE, Ore. — Suzanne Swift remembers standing in her mother’s living room, hours away from her second deployment to Iraq. Her military gear had already been shipped — along with her Game Boy, her DVDs and books, her favorite pink pillow, her stash of sunflower seeds. She had the car keys in her hand, ready to drive to the base. Suddenly, she turned to her mother.

“I can’t do this,” she remembers saying. “I can’t go.”

The Army is still weighing action — including a court-martial — in the case of Spec. Suzanne Swift, 22, right, with her mother, Sara Rich. (By Chris Pietsch — For The Washington Post)

The Army specialist, now 22, recalls her churning stomach. Her mother’s surprise. All at once, she said, she could not bear the idea of another year like her first. She was sexually harassed by one superior, she said, and coerced into a sexual affair with another.

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