Sexual violence is a serious problem within armed services. This article explores intra-service rape in branches of the U.S. military from the 1990s to the present. The article begins by establishing the parameters of the crisis of sexual abuse within the U.S. armed services. Second, it explores systematic failures to recognize forms of suffering. Victim-survivors in the military are vulnerable to military-specific obstacles to reporting their abuse and being believed. Attention is paid to differences by gender and sexual orientation. Third, it analyses the medicalization of suffering in the modern military and its effects. What meanings are assigned to ‘military sexual trauma' (MST) and how has that label affected victim-survivors of rape or sexual assault? The article concludes by arguing that the concept of ‘trauma’ as it is applied to victims of sexual abuse does a formidable amount of political and ideological work.

性暴力是武装部队中的一个严重问题。本文探讨了 1990 年代至今美国军队各部门的服役期间强奸事件。本文首先确定美国武装部队内性虐待危机的参数。其次，它探讨了识别痛苦形式的系统性失败。军队中的受害者幸存者很容易受到军队特定障碍的影响，无法报告他们的虐待行为和被相信。注意性别和性取向的差异。第三，分析了现代军队中苦难的医学化及其影响。“军事性创伤”的含义是什么 （MST）以及该标签如何影响强奸或性侵犯的受害者幸存者？文章最后指出，将“创伤”这一概念应用于性虐待受害者时，其政治和意识形态工作量巨大。