| Female soldiers died as a result of dehydration resulting from their fear of obtaining it late in the day because of a fear of being raped. "There were no lights near any of their facilities, so women were doubly easy targets in the dark of the night," Karpinski told retired US Army Col. David Hackworth in a September 2004 interview. It was there that male soldiers assaulted and raped women soldiers. So the women took matters into their own hands. They didn't drink in the late afternoon so they wouldn't have to urinate at night. They didn't get raped. But some died of dehydration in the desert heat... [Gen.] Sanchez's attitude was: "The women asked to be here, so now let them take what comes with the territory," |
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