Please keep this anonymous!! I truly feel sorry for all the females who have been subjected to sexual abuse or even raped during their time in the forces, but even as a young male in the Army, I fell foul to this also at my first unit. Went out for a few beers with the lads at my new unit to try and fit in and after a few felt very dizzy and unstable, more than usual after not that much booze. 2 of the corporals offered to help me back to camp as I clearly ‘couldn’t handle my drink’ who then both proceeded to rape me after getting me back to my room. I think I was spiked by them personally as a set agenda but no way of proving this. Next morning, feeling very sorry for myself and depressed, I confided in my Sgt at work about what had happened and he laughed. His exacts words were ‘do you really want to report this so everyone knows you got bummed?’ And that was the last I ever said about it, needless to say I never went out drinking again after that and transferred capbadges soon afterwards. Having never mentioned this before I take courage in the bravery of all the people coming forward to highlight the appalling behaviour and conduct of those meant to guide and protect us when we’re young

Please keep anonymous and sorry for the long post. Last week of basic our female troop captain gave us a speech that she once knew a girl who slept about in unit, this same girl woke up one night to two men entering her room and they proceeded to rape her. The moral was if you put out slutty behaviour then expect unwanted attention so think about this carefully at your units and ‘please ensure you all lock your doors at night’. Straight to training unit for phase 2, received open unwanted sexual comments and attention from a Sgt there, this happened regularly and in front of the whole class at times. No one said a thing other than at the fag shelter about how shit it was and how they were glad they weren’t me. Straight to med reg. Our 40+ married SSgt used to ask the privates to ‘perch’ on his desk and we’d have to sit our bums on the front of his desk next to his chair whilst he was sitting in it. If you protested he would say ‘sh sh’ and wouldn’t let you speak until you perched. I must add he also did this to the males though so no one said anything. Night out, lots of unwanted attention from a weasel. That night I went to room and locked door, 20 minutes in I heard padded footsteps to my door and I heard my door handle being tried several times. They gave up and fucked off. Standing in the cookhouse queue with 6 other blokes and a Capt. Another weasel who was always lurking with sexual comments, decided to randomly poke me in the vagina with his fork. No one said a thing. I did a stint at Brize Norton, I was sitting at a desk completing work in a small one man office, a vile married Cpl who had been making sexual comments for weeks came in, pushed my chair back from the desk lifted my legs to try and put my feet on his shoulders saying ‘you know it would be good.’ Next unit, another weasel used to come and knock on my door every chance he got. Would sit next to me and touch my legs. Touch my bum whenever I walked past him. He would take out his phone and say look at this and it was pictures of his penis. I served for 6 years and in that time I met 3 females who had been raped and never reported it bar one who was called a lying slut by the whole unit and the bloke got let off because of a lack of evidence as it appeared he used a condom.