‘We are all suffering in silence’ — Inside the US military’s pervasive culture of eating disorders
“PTSD, military sexual trauma, and eating disorders go so, unfortunately well together."
By Haley Britzky | Updated Aug 2, 2021 12:09 PM
News Analysis Army Marine Corps
Rachel Dyal no longer cared what happened to her, or even if she ended up in the hospital, as long as she didn’t have to get taped.
Dyal, a 27-year-old Army first lieutenant, came to that realization in September 2019 after she failed a tape test designed to capture body measurements in order to calculate body fat. She was nearing the end of the Army’s Graduate Program in Nutrition through Baylor University that would culminate with a master’s degree in nutrition. A tape test was the only thing standing in her way.
It wasn’t the first time she’d failed the test. In October 2016, before she entered the program, she went to a recruiter’s office to get more information about the Army. Not knowing much about the service, she showed up to the recruitment office in a business suit and had “no concept about height/weight” requirements, she said.
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