For female G.I.s, 'nothing seems to change' in military

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For female G.I.s, 'nothing seems to change' in military

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_7372544

Article Last Updated: 11/05/2007 04:32:12 PM MST

The soldiers outside her room were drunken and indignant.

"Why won't you date any of us, bitch?" Amanda Blume recalled one of the men demanded before he helped kick in her barracks door.

Inside, Blume remembered, she was surrounded, called names and pushed into a corner. Fearing for her safety, she said, she fought her way free, striking one of the men in the face on the way out.

The next week, Blume's Fort Sill, Okla., Army commanders charged her with assault.

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