Word: schaper
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Mark Thompson's story has not the slightest hint that the women involved should bear any responsibility for their behavior. Here we have women who are 18 years of age, considered mature, yet apparently they cannot be held responsible for their decisions involving sex. Carissa Schaper chose to lie about her medical condition and become involved in an affair with a married sergeant, yet she is treated strictly as a victim. Policies that protect women from accountability are unfair to both sexes, and will probably have a divisive influence in the years to come. CHRISTOPHER C. HEARD Nashville, Tenn...
...first place women meet today's Army is not at boot camp but in America's clean and well-lighted recruiting stations, where teenagers go to get the military sales pitch. When 18-year-old Carissa Schaper walked into one last year in St. Peters, Missouri, she thought she was safe. But as she later told an Army investigator, she was taken aback by what she saw and heard. "It's not a question of whether we can get you into the Army," she was told on her second visit, "but can the Army get into you?" The recruiters seemed...
...Schaper, a troubled young woman who was fighting depression and rebelling against her devoutly Christian parents, ended up having a six-month relationship with Sergeant Paul Belisle, a married recruiter. By the time it was over, the teenager had contracted herpes and twice attempted suicide. After a six-month probe, the Army washed its hands of the messy affair on April 14, telling the Schapers that it had no legal responsibility for an out-of-control sergeant. But Belisle acknowledges that he brought a formidable weapon to his role as seducer. "I didn't realize how powerful the uniform...
...Schaper's case is not the only evidence that the Army has been less than aggressive in getting to the bottom of these problems. Last month in upstate New York, a 30-year-old former Army policewoman left her 31-year-old recruiter husband after seven years of marriage and a four-year-old son. She says the reason was her husband's continued affair with a young woman he recruited last year when she was 18. "Recruiters' wives call it the 'officer and a gentleman syndrome,'" explains the estranged wife, who declined to be identified while the divorce...
...Schapers share her rage. "We were betrayed by the U.S. Army, and I will feel that way for the rest of my life," Arthur Schaper says. "These people are supposed to follow certain standards, instead of hiding behind their uniforms." Or using them as brass-buttoned date bait...