Every day there were issues with sexual harassment

Every day there were issues with sexual harassment

Marylyn:

Because of just the human male/female dynamics, when you are a long way from home, in a captive environment, in a high-stress environment, some people in positions are going to take advantage of others that are lower, so to speak, than them, and these are not the only circumstances. But, every day there was issues with sexual harassment. Sometimes there was touching, there was groping. I remember on many occasions, I was enlisted and I was E6, and the role of the E6s was to pull guard duty every other day. So, it was 24 hour guard duty. We are on for two hours, off for two hours. Well, during the nights, the person that was on guard duty, if there were two people to a post, one would come and get you and wake you up in your tent. Well, I remember on many occasions when the person came to get me to wake me up in my tent, I was asleep in my tent, they would come in and they're just supposed to tap you or make some kind of noise so you could get up and get on duty. Well, that was a prime opportunity to be fondled and groped, and then when you're out on a post, this happened to me numerous times, you're out on a post, there's a roving Sergeant of the Guard or maybe some other people walking around for whatever reasons, those were prime opportunities where you're basically in isolation and those were times when I was sexually harassed.