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Gena Smith
Gena Smith is an Army veteran of the Iraq war. In 2006 she was ordered into an all-male combat unit because of her prowess as an intelligence specialist. Her brigade fought a year-battle to tame the city of Baqubah, where she was also raped by her own.
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Playing with Fire: How Veterans Benefits Cuts Will Hurt Us All
What will happen if disabled veterans lose everything? What happens when they can no longer access mental health care? I have lived this fear every day since the inauguration.For longer than two decades, between 2008 and 2022, twenty-two veterans a day committed suicide. The Department of Veteran…
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Veteran suicides…help in some way for what you hold dear
We republish this article from 2015. US Army veteran Gena Smith (pictured above) served in Iraq as an intelligence specialist and experience combat many times during her year-long deployment. She is also a victim of Military Sexual Trauma or MST. She currently resides in Seattle.
#MeToo: Emotional abuse primer
The advent of #MeToo has revealed so many sexual predators who used some form of emotional abuse or manipulation to get what they truly want, perhaps we should begin thinking of new laws to protect women from predators who spring emotional traps to have sex.
I served in Iraq and was the only female…
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Denying veterans medical marijuana for PTSD exposes who the true dopes are
Last month in Colorado, Iraqi veteran Steve Otero, with his toddler twin boys by his side, told a crowd at a Colorado Board of Health meeting, “Without cannabis, I’d be dead.” Otero said he had a noose (literally) around his neck when a civilian friend suggested he take a couple puffs…