Military's tough stance on sex abuse hailed
Photo credit: Newsday/Audrey C. Tiernan | Gladys McCoy, was gang raped while serving in the Marines about 20 years ago. She has experienced such extreme PTSD that it is difficult for the wife and grandmother to leave her Ronkonkoma home. She was photographed during an interview in her home. (June 20, 2011)
Private Gladys Gomez when she was in Marine For Gladys McCoy, a night of drinking in 1989 with fellow Marine Corps recruits went devastatingly awry at a NATO facility in Norway.
McCoy, then a 20-year-old radio operator from Far Rockaway, was just months out of boot camp and still struggling to fit in with her male colleagues. When some of them retreated to a "drinking tent" for a night of beer and camaraderie, McCoy said, she went willingly...
