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Watters: Women on base, you better be careful. Port calls, women in Asia, you better be careful. Because these guys are going to be wild animals and you better watch out.

“Women on base, you better be careful. Port calls, women in Asia, you better be careful. Because these guys are going to be wild animals and you better watch out.”

  • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Yep. Its why the MPs around some bases will basically beat you and drag your ass back on base if you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, because they have so many problems with service members committing crimes off base that its jeopardizing their authorization.

    • velma@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      Women in the army are more likely to be murdered by their fellow servicemen than by enemies, too.

      • UnspecificGravity@piefed.socialEnglish
        45·
        2 days ago

        That is probably true for men too, since we really aren’t doing anything with the military apart from jerking Trump off.

        • velma@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          111·
          2 days ago

          It really isn’t true for men the same way though

          A first-of-its-kind analysis by The Intercept found that in the Army, women are more likely to be killed by their fellow service members than by enemy combatants, in a reversal of the threat soldiers are trained to face. Between 2011 and August 2025, at least 41 women died by homicide in the Army — more than half of them at the hands of other service members or veterans. Using Defense Department manpower data to calculate per capita death rates, The Intercept found that active-duty Army women face a higher risk of homicide than male soldiers, the opposite of national and global trends.

          In many cases, women in the Army are killed by current or former romantic partners. Over 70 percent of victims had an intimate relationship with the perpetrator at one point, and the rate of homicides among women soldiers from intimate partner violence is at least three times higher than the national average.