{"id":88537,"date":"2019-07-01T10:45:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88537"},"modified":"2019-07-01T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T14:15:14","slug":"female-vets-harrassed-at-va-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88537","title":{"rendered":"Female Vets Harrassed at VA Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON \u2014 Corey Foster spent her Army career caring for wounded troops, both as a flight medic in the Iraq war and at Walter Reed hospital, so she looked forward to one of the most celebrated benefits of military service \u2014 health care for life from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Then she walked through the door at a V.A. medical center in Temple, Tex.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou felt like you were a piece of meat,\u201d said Ms. Foster, 34, who retired as a sergeant. \u201cStanding in line at the registration desk, I was getting comments from the male patients behind me, looking me up and down. It was a major source of discomfort.\u201d<\/p>\n

The treatment was the same at the Veterans Affairs medical center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., where Ms. Foster moved after living in Texas. At that point she gave up, and opted for her husband\u2019s insurance outside the department. \u201cThey need to make the facilities not feel like an old soldier\u2019s home,\u201d Ms. Foster said. – Article<\/p>\n

Women vets being sized up by the male vets at the FHCC?\u00a0So far, this hasn\u2019t happened to me, but I don\u2019t haunt the VA for much of anything. I generally just go there to get the flu shot and that\u2019s about it.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/12\/us\/politics\/women-veterans-harassment.html<\/a><\/p>\n

I do understand that it\u2019s a problem depending on where you are, but some of the things mentioned in the article, e.g., asking for a husbands\u2019 social security number instead of yours, seem rather illogical to me. I\u2019ve never been asked for anything like that at the FHCC that I go to infrequently. That might be due to the large female military population nearby, which goes there for sick call.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t these women, who surely had some seniority before they left the military, have enough gumption to face these jerks down? If not, then why not?\u00a0 I think that the VA has come up with some kind of solution to this particular problem, which is registering online. That takes some of this bad behavior by jerkwads and dumbasses out of the picture. You can also make appointments online. Probably should have been started up much longer ago.<\/p>\n

Come on! We aren’t Olive Oyl or Harriet Nelson and Father Doesn’t Always Know Best these days.<\/p>\n

Not pointing fingers or doing the blame game, but it seems kind of silly to me that they think they have to put up with this kind of bad manners and obnoxious crap from anyone at all, just because they\u2019re women, when they don\u2019t have to put up with it at all.<\/p>\n

However, if the people who staff some of these facilities are so unenlightened that they think women don’t have their own SSNs, or that there are not women vets, I want to know where that started. And I’d also like to know why there are any VA FHCC facilities with staff that act like this, at all. There are, as the article indicates, about two million (that’s 2,000,000) ++plus of us coming into the system and we expect to get good care, and not have to worry about our own safety.<\/p>\n

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