for women. Not only are military sexual assaults on the rise (there were about 3,000 assaults reported last year–up 24%), at the Department of Veteran’s Affairs woman’s trauma recovery program in Palo Alto, Calif., 78 percent of women being treated for PTSD were admitted with military sexual trauma. It is time to quit sending women to Iraq. It is also time to quit sending men to Iraq. Let’s bring the troops home to their families now.