The unbearable cost of losing the silent war within our military

When young people join the military, they join to fight America’s enemies. When the oath they take reads “against all enemies foreign and domestic,” none thought the domestic enemy would be someone in their chain of command. For those who are women, they certainly never thought the enemy would share the same gender much less the uniform. But when Lt. Col. Betsy Schoeller, who serves in the Wisconsin Air Guard, posted on Facebook that “[s]exual harassment is the price of admission for women into the good ole boy club,” she exposed the depth of the problem. For far too many women veterans, however, pointing this out is as useless as taking a thermometer to the sun.