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Erin Kirk-Cuomo
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Erin Kirk-Cuomo served as a combat photographer in the Marine Corps and was discharged as a sergeant in 2010. She went on to serve as a photographer and public affairs specialist for the Office of the Secretary of Defense until 2014. Along with several other retired, active, and former women Marines she started the nonprofit advocacy group Not In My Marine Corps to highlight the issues of sexual assault and harassment in the military.
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I Am Vanessa Guillen
I, too, was harassed, belittled, groped, touched, rubbed, threatened, assaulted, and demeaned. I was raped. Military justice needs to change.
- Erin Kirk-Cuomo