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When I was new in the military, I was very young and naive to the world. I had an incident with a person in my chain of command in which he put me in an extremely comfortable situation behind closed doors. Thankfully, it was no more than words, but it made me feel extremely uncomfortable, and I did not trust that man for the rest of the time he was in charge of me. I never said anything officially because I was still programmed not to go against someone higher ranking than me or in a leadership position, and I feared that because it was his word against mine, I would not be believed. As I got older and spent time in the service, I always regretted not saying anything. I knew in my gut, with how easily those words came out of his mouth, that he had approached other servicewomen like that before. I felt like if I had said something, maybe I could have prevented other potentially uncomfortable situations. Now, I would immediately shut it down by telling him how inappropriate that behavior is, walk right over to the next-in-line boss, and report him for harassment