Females in the army
Specifically ait.
Today I will not be eating dinner again, the day before it was breakfast. Multiple hours in class missed, free hours spent locked in my room, work outs missed and an over all feeling of absolute frustration.
The battle buddy system and all the other rules put in to "protect" females have done nothing but make my life a hassle. My first week here i was running the track with a couple males, and was brought inside by very angry sergeants and told to wait in a room for 3 hours just so they can have the proper battly buddy talk, there's like 6 other females here and they don't like spending their free time running so apparently neither do i.
A week or two ago I decided to play video games in the day room with multiple males in the room the sergeant walks in and to all of our surprise I'm the only female in there. So now every time a new male walks in or out everybody in the room has to go to the sergeants office and ask for permission so that I could be in there. After the 3rd time it was no longer funny I could tell I bothered them all so I just left to my room.
A couple days ago It was the final day we could get our bus tickets for block leave so a group of males and i were trying to sign out before the place closed but the sergeant didn't let us bc I needed another female. Took us 30min to find one that came very unwillingly and I made the rest of the group late.
Today we were released right before dinner chow, everyone fell out of formation leaving only me and 3 other males wanting to go to the defac (everyone else eats at the px or orders food but we didn't want to waste money with HBL and Christmas coming up) since there's not enough for a formation we had to get the battle buddy team approved and we figured they would bc we're going to eat. But no and again the males turned around and I realized now I'm keeping them from eating so I said I wasn't hungry and that they could go ahead and go.
I'm so frustrated I understand why these systems are in place but I am literally just trying to go eat, there is 300 males in my company and there is only 20 females. And this is apparently the most there has been. I feel terrible all the time like I'm just screwing everybody over. All these rules set up to protect everyone and so the females feel safe and no one is discriminated against but all I know is if I was a male I would be eating rn. I could be in any room and I could run that track. The army was not made for females.
