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I witnessed a rape at marine boot camp and can't get over it?

Okay I got kicked out after 11 weeks due to aspergers. I was in the shower and there were several other guys and one guy had started to make sexual advances at another guy. Originally I thought it was just joking around and the it escalated to rape. I tried to stop it. But four other guys had held me down. I went to my drill instructor and a superior officer and reported it. But I told the guy that raped the guy thinking I could truest him I had aspergers. And inces they found out I had aspergers my word officially meant shit to them. I was quickly discharged and also the guy that was raped killed himself on the rifle range im front of us. The reason you dint hear about this stuff is the military tends to lie about this stuff. So people won't be scarred to join. How can I get over this
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  • Welcome to the USMC, unfortunately as someone in it what you saw isn't really something unusual.

    I witnessed quite a few rapes of both men and women and in some units you are not one of them until you've raped.

    Your drill instructor and S/O most likely had raped in the past too so it is unlikely he would be taking much of a stance with regard to rape.

    If you had reported it then consider yourself you got off easy if all you had is a discharge. I've known girls who had reported that they were raped at a base and were actively pursuing it only to find someone close to them disappeared in rather mysterious circumstances and another one who found herself court marshalled for making a false allegation, not surprisingly it happened very quickly as well and she left the marines with a bad case of PTSD and a DD.

    Pursue it? I know your kind, you think you are trying to be that little guy hero that can beat the system. I'll tell you to not waste your time as your word will carry zero weight and you just might find something rather unpleasant happening to you within days of it happening.

    • Its not fair i didn't sign up to see that kind of stuff. I didn't even have a combat mos in the marines. this just isn't fair that we let something like that happen

    • Life ain't fair get used to it.

  • I'm so sorry that you are in this place. I'd report it anonymously to the Corps and then find you a good rape counselor. This is something you can work through but probably not well by yourself.

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  • Rape culture in the military is abhorrent and unfortunately there isn't a whole lot you can do. As a witness, you are not even legally able to report that. Unfortunate as it is, there is nothing you can do.

  • being witness of a rape is something difficult you better turn toward a therapist

  • I'd take it national if I were you and seek out help.

    • Belive me watch the invisible war or casualties of war. The military will always look twice at rape. There was no evidence against him no sperm or nothing and they didn't even look into it. And plus the victim killed himself so there is no one else to verify it happened and its now my word against his. And because of the fact that i lied about aspergers to get in they will never take my word

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  • Have you tried therapy?

    • Yes I have

    • How about horse therapy? https://healinghorsecenter.wix.com/healing-begins

      This one specializes in military sexual trauma.

    • I can't get it due to the fact that I lied about a medical condition and have no insurance from the military

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  • deliver justice in your own hands!

  • Find the guys who you saw raping a fellow soldier...

    and remove them from the face of the earth. quietly. conscience eased.

  • oh man i heard so many stories like this. if you can please report it and als speak to a therapist! good luck!

  • I think I know you...

    • huh what do you mean

    • you're freaking me out

  • The best thing you can do is find out who that victim was and tell his parents the real truth.

    • I dont want to do it. The victims parents already lost their son and telling them this would be to much

    • Hmm ok... Then you need to get over it yourself. You can't change what happened to him. U weren't responsible for him being raped. You tried to help but the forces are too strong.

  • if your dismissal wasn't dishonorable discharge, don't you qualify for VA benefits? maybe they can help you with what kind of sounds like ptsd.

    • i got an entry level seperation. It just means that i wasn't in the miltary long enough and i dont qualify for an honorable or dishonarble discharge

  • The irony of it all... our own "terrorists" are given the duty to protect us against "terrorists".

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