Las Vegas Review-Journal: Nellis major faces trial Tuesday on sex abuse charges
Protect Our Defenders is featured in this Las Vegas Review-Journal article:
According to the Air Force Times, Bridges, a member of the 99th Logistics Readiness Squadron, claimed she had been harassed after arriving at the Nellis base in November 2009.
The harassment “eventually turned physical, despite repeated complaints to her chain-of-command. Instead of handling the problems, she has alleged, her superiors retaliated against her, citing Bridges for minor misconduct that culminated in January in a discharge recommendation under other-than-honorable conditions,” the Air Force Times reported.
The airman’s family sought support from Protect Our Defenders, which led to the Air Force abandoning the discharge recommendation. The organization’s news release quotes her attorney, Capt. Trae Patterson, saying, however, “the emotional scars from years of harassment and assault, as well as nearly 10 months of stress and fearing for her Air Force career along with being subjugated as an outcast, remain.”
