Silent Battles: The Fight for Justice After Military Sexual Assault

In this episode, Meghann shares her military journey and the challenges she faced, including being sexually assaulted while deployed. She discusses her experiences as a firefighter and aeromedical evacuation technician. She also talks about the aftermath of the assault, including the command directed investigation and shares her experience of inadequate response to her sexual assault and the betrayal she faced from her commander and unit. Despite reporting the assault, her perpetrator was not charged, and the commander chose to demote him instead of taking appropriate action. Her request to finish her orders at a base close to home was denied. She also discovered a conflict of interest with her victim's advocate. Meghann shares her experiences with the chaplain's office, including the inappropriate remarks made by the head chaplain. Meghann highlights the importance of knowing one's rights and seeking legal help. She recounts the incompetence and arrogance of her commanders and the desperate measures she took to fight back. She remains determined to seek justice and exposes the conflict of interest within the legal system. She recounts the difficulties she faced during out-processing and reenlistment, as well as the impact of receiving two ratings that affected her future prospects. Despite the hardships, she found healing and transformation through neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and decided to share her story publicly. She now advocates for survivors of sexual assault and aims to bring about change in the way the military handles such cases.

ABOUT
Meghann is a disabled Veteran from Colorado who served for ten years, as a Firefighter/EMT and Aeromedical Evacuation Technician at Aviano AB, Italy, Shaw AFB, SC, Charlotte, NC and Cheyenne, WY with multiple deployments to the Middle East. Through here journeys, she eventually found her path to the online Entrepreneurship. Meghann founded Deadlift Diva, her fitness brand and company. She has been a personal trainer & fitness instructor since 2010. In 2016 while deployed to Kuwait, she was sexually assaulted and it changed everything. She came home to a life of anger, trauma, hurt and was diagnosed with PTSD-MST (military sexual trauma). It led to the end of her career. During this time, she found herself in a very dark place mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually and eventually started to question what her purpose was. Spring of 2019, she found that purpose. Meghann was introduced to NLP by a close friend, and attended her NLP Practitioner course in May 2019. Within six months of attending, she released all 5 of the Major negative emotions surrounding her trauma and other events in her past. She co-authored an International Best Seller called She Did It. In March of 2020, was invited to speak at Fort Sam Houston to the Army South Command & Sexual Assault Team in efforts to combat Military Sexual Assault and the importance of Mental Health Awareness. August 2020 she continued her journey by attending an NLP Master Practitioner course and started Meghann Trapp Coaching, which focuses on helping others take back their lives. She is involved in Veteran Communities and Outreach programs to help Vets suffering from Mental Health, PTSD and co-founded/works as a co-producer for The VET struggle, a youtube channel & blog addressing Veterans Issues, Greater Veterans, American Military Family; IGY6 and is working on expanding that Network for those trying to change the culture within the military & Veteran Community.

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