Marianne Bustin said that for years she heard troubling accounts of sexual harassment and assaults on the Pennsylvania Air National Guard base in Horsham.
Scores of women — and men — related stories of airmen telling rape jokes and using off-color humor and language to intimidate Black and female colleagues. There were accounts of alcohol-fueled improprieties, hostile work environments, and worse, sexual violence. It was Bustin’s job as the sexual assault response coordinator on the base to field such complaints and advance any apparent wrongdoings to leadership.
But Bustin, 58, said that in doing her job, she got on the wrong side of what she describes as a toxic male chauvinistic fighter-pilot culture at the base. Two years ago, Bustin was terminated from her job and stripped of her professional credentials in what she says was retribution on the part of a “good ol’ boys” workplace. After she filed the allegations of a hostile workplace, Bustin said she was cited for an ethical violation. Bustin was reported by someone on the base as having been seen eavesdropping on a conversation with a chaplain.
“Of course it was false,” she said.
The loss of credentials means she is unable to work as a sexual victims response coordinator in the military or the private sector.
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