Rape shame of the US military | Life and style | The Guardian Last week, Jamie Leigh Jones lost a civil lawsuit against her former employer, the private military contracting firm KBR. Jones had accused several of her colleagues of violent gang rape, to which KBR responded by insisting she settled the matter through private arbitration rather than a civil court. It took four years for Jones to be granted her day in court. After two days of deliberation, a federal jury decided that her claims were untrue. Although Jones's case was thrown out, it touched upon a prevalent – yet gravely underrepresented – problem within the US military. According to military reporter Adam Weinstein, a US servicewoman is twice as likely to be the victim of rape as her civilian counterpart. In fact, a US female soldier in Iraq is more likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy. Worse still, the Pentagon estimates that as many as 90% of sexual assault cases in the military go unreported...