STAMP, Survivors Take Action against abuse by Military Personnel, was established in 1996 to help survivors of abuse by military personnel. STAMP serves abuse survivors, their families and friends. It services abuses of mental, emotional, sexual, physical abuses and corruption within the military. STAMP serves our clients: active duty military, veterans, civilians, spouses, children, parents, etc., in getting information, speaking out and empowering them to take action! Since 1996 STAMP has documented and talked with over 3800 US clients, and thousands internationally. STAMP, has been featured on; The O’Reilly Factor, CNN with Paula Zahn, and Wolf Blitzer, The Today Show with Katie Couric. Our mission is to help heal these deep and very personal human abuse issues by openly and honestly speaking publicly. We are committed to informing, educating, and healing. Acknowledging that "TRUE" national security can only be achieved through "AUTHENTIC" personal security. STAMP, Executive Director, Dorothy Mackey, a former US Air Force Captain/Commander has provided healing workshops to survivors, presentations to The Hague, Amnesty International, and the International Psychiatrist Conference. She has also been requested to provide papers and her recommendations based on experience and research to US Congresspersons.

*Crimes of the Military are not just "Military Business" —They are a Danger to Our Children and our Own National and Global Security!

Five US laws give military who rape, maim or murder their own or others immunity from prosecution and accountability

In 1994 the Department of Defense began the initiative "Troops to Teachers" Program. This program released DoD funds and helped bring former military members into our schools K-12 due to a shortage of teachers. The problem is we do not know the quality of these people coming in. The military can punish their own under what is known as "Non Judicial Punishment (NJP)". Offenses such as domestic violence, assaults, and even sexual inappropriate behavior can be punished under NJP. When this person is released from the military, his records are hidden under U.S. Code 522a from law enforcement background checks.

Offenses often punished in the military often would prohibit military from seeking work with school children, or vulnerable classes of people. Preliminary research in Ohio demonstrated that military convicted/sentences to military prisons for sexual offenses, upon release their records were refused released to the State until 1999, begrudgingly only 30 records were released and 24 records in 2000. Simply put any military sexual assailants released before 1999 could work anywhere, without records transfer, these persons could appear to have no criminal convictions. Similar disturbing trends have been seen in Illinois, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Florida and Alabama. Military released for sexual inappropriate behavior reside in each of these states without predator paperwork!

The US Government does not recognize the foreign conviction of military members; therefore, sexual predators are not monitored in the US. The U.S. government refuses to make rape a war crime. The U.S. government refuses to sign the International Criminal Courts Treaty unless the "military get immunity". It has been a standard practice that military members who rape, beat or kill foreign civilians would often be placed on a plane and relocated to a new assignment without ever being held accountable.

In 1998, when a Japanese delegation went to the DoD and State Department making a plea to them to stop the U.S. military members from abusing their people, they were told, "Stop Coming Here – We don’t care!" This was not the first time the Japanese delegation made this plea—they came for ten years without help!

In accordance with the Book "For Love of Country, Confronting Rape and Sexual Assault in the U.S. Military" written by author T.S. Nelson, an exhaustive study concluded that over 200,000 U.S. military women have been sexually harassed, assaulted or raped. 60% have been harassed or assaulted, 30% raped. And rape is not excluded to women. 98% of all men raped are raped by heterosexual-to-heterosexual assaults for the same power and control issues as a rapist with women.

In accordance with the Special U.S. Justice Report 2000, the #1 reason veterans are in civilian prisons and jails, is for sexual assault. The veterans’ rate of sexual assault is more than double the rate of civilians in prison for the same reason. According to the same report, one of three military members are in military prisons for sexual assault.

WASHINGTON POST -- Senators on Capitol Hill blasted the Air Force top brass Monday for its handling of a string of rapes at the Air Force Academy. The shamelessness became even more evident when the Air Force finally released surveys taken among cadets at the academy -- Air Force official’s claim the surveys can’t be validated because only a few hundred of the 4,000 cadets responded to the survey. Senators Blasted Air Force Leaders For Not Holding Anyone Accountable…and A Survey Shows Air Force Leaders Knew About Sexual Assault Problems For Years! POSTED: 8:32 a.m. MST April 1, 2003

STAMP has found that the raw survey numbers are clear:

In 1997: 19 women of the 127 who responded said they were sexually assaulted while at the academy -- 13 of those in the previous year;

In 1998: 22 cadets of the 500 responding said they were sexually assaulted. No gender was noted; In 2000: 17 cadets of the 314 reported being assaulted. No gender was noted;

In 2001: 167 cadets of the more than 2,000 who responded said they had been sexually assaulted at the academy -- many more than once;

In 2002: 56 women said they were sexually assaulted as well as 24 men. The Air Force claims only 54 females have been assaulted since 1996!

Robert Burdge Air Force cadet raped a 13 yr old child, charged with "Consensual Sodomy with a Minor" was awarded two months in jail and is now free without predator paperwork following him.

In 1995, after being released with an honorable discharge after sexual inappropriate behavior, Air Force priest Barry E. Ryan began teaching school in the State of Florida.

March 2003, 3 US rapists returned to TX and GE without predator status after raping and beating the 12-yr. old Okinawa schoolgirl.

STAMP is a non-profit support agency and consulting services that provide presentation, seminars, workshops and training to desire to help heal clients and our nation(s). STAMP speaks up about criminal abuses in the military, the sanctioning and protection of abuse in the US military. Abuses by US military leadership and the US towards its own, US citizens and foreign citizens.