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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...
They do indeed. A TIME investigation shows that women don't have to wait until they are under a sergeant's command to experience sexual harassment from men in uniform. They can just walk into one of the recruiting stations along Main Street or in shopping malls across America expressly designed to persuade youngsters to "be all that you can be." According to Army records obtained by TIME under the Freedom of Information Act, sexually predatory recruiters are a national problem. Though the reports had all names and locations blacked out, their dates show a dramatic rise in sexual-harassment...
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND: Former Drill Sergeant Delmar Simpson stood straight at attention as a military juror quickly read the verdict against him: Guilty on 43 of 54 charges, including raping six trainees a total of 18 times. Although 11 other men face charges in the Aberdeen investigation, Simpson's was the most egregious case in the military's worst sex scandal since 1991's Tailhook. Jurors deliberated for five days to return a verdict which ultimately came down to a question of abusing authority: Did Simpson use the sheer power that a drill instructor wields over trainees to intimidate them...
...CANDIDATE] JOHN MCCAIN ARIZONA SENATOR [SIGN OF RUNNING] Feeling out fund raisers [PLAUSIBILITY FACTOR] Time for a Republican Vietnam war hero [WANTS TO REMIND US OF:] Sergeant York [ACTUALLY REMINDS US OF:] The Bob Kerry of the G.O.P...
...Aberdeen Proving Ground begins this week, but three U.S. military personnel accused of sexual wrongdoing have already exacted the ultimate in self-inflicted punishment: suicide. Private Alan May, 22, hanged himself in his Aberdeen barracks on Jan. 4, three days before he was to face a rape charge. Staff Sergeant Michael Thompson, 31, of Fort Detrick, Maryland, took his life on Feb. 24, three days after being questioned by Army investigators about a female soldier's complaint that he had indecently assaulted her. The case involved a two-year-old incident that surfaced only after soldiers were told to report...