I just got an email from Lance Corporal Nicole McCoy. She would like our support.

[Scuba]

from my email...


Scuba -

I served as a Lance Corporal in the Marines for over three years. During that time, I was raped twice and sexually assaulted twice more. It happened so often that I assumed it must be normal.

After I left the Marines, I learned that some studies estimate that one in three women who serve in the US military are raped during their service. But according to current military law, military rapists are not required to register as sex offenders in a national database or to list their crimes on their discharge papers.

I don't think it's right that some convicted sex offenders get to wipe their records clean when they leave the military.

That's why I started a petition on Change.org asking the Department of Defense to create a mandatory national database for convicted military sex offenders -- and to make sure they register at the local level too.

Click here to add your name to my petition.

Thank you,

Lance Corporal Nicole McCoy

[hedgehog]

1. k&r

[ceile]

2. K&R!

I'll sign.

[Ohio Joe]

3. K&R - nt

[redqueen]

4. K&R

I hope this OP gets more attention and support than mine did.

[Scuba]

8. I saw yours fleetingly crossing DU, figured this couldn't hurt....

... treatment of women in this country is shameful.

Treatment of service personnel in this country is shameful.

Our treatment of women in the service is simply a disgrace.

[redqueen]

9. Thanks for posting it again.

I can't believe people seem not to find this outrageous.

[Hun Joro]

5. K&R

[bobthedrummer]

6. K&R n/t

[mckara]

7. I Support Nicole and I Signed the Petition!

As a former naval officer, I fully support changing the services' Neanderthal approach of not properly protecting our women in uniform!

[redqueen]

10. Kick for more signatures.