'I am also a military sexual assault survivor.' In a Senate subcommittee hearing, SenMcSallyAZ reveals she was raped while serving in the military. The retired colonel says she almost left the Air Force, feeling the 'system was raping me all over again.'
McSally, who is a Republican, made the revelation during a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing on sexual assault in the military.McSally said to witnesses present,"So like you, I am also a military sexual assault survivor," but she says she did not report and did not trust the system to do so. Welling up with emotion, McSally said she almost left the Air Force over her despair."Like many victims, I felt the system was raping me all over again.
Kristen Gillibrand of New York, thanked McSally for sharing her story, saying that she was"deeply affected by that testimony."While McSally is one of only a few women in Congress to publicly discuss their #metoo story, Wednesday's revelation comes less than two months after another Republican senator shared her own experience with sexual assault, though under vastly different circumstances.Republican Sen.
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