Pentagon makes rape victims pay for their own exam kits

This is one of the most outrageous stories I've seen lately about the treatment of America's military personnel - and on Veterans Day, no less.

It turns out that (like Sarah Palin's administration in Wasilla) the Pentagon's medical system for active duty members doesn't pay for forensic rape kits for military women who are raped. The Pentagon forces the women to pay for it themselves.

We don't bill burglary victims for the cost of fingerprinting the crime scene, so why the hell does the military bill rape victims for rape kits?

"Support the troops" isn't supposed to be just a motto. But under the regime that's ruled the country for the past 8 years, America's fighting men and women have been stabbed in the back again and again. They got their signing bonuses taken away if they got injured, they got their disability records shredded, they were insulted by self-righteous know-it-alls like Sally Satel, and now this.

(Source: http://www.alternet.org/reproductivejustice/106307/raped_in_the_military_you)