Operation Fouled Anchor: Meghan Klement

Meghan Klement is a former member of the U.S. Coast Guard who was sexually assaulted and subjected to extreme forms of retaliation by her chain of command. Her story gained national attention, and was most recently talked about in the Senate Committee Hearing with Senator Blumenthal when the Commandant of the Coast Guard was questioned about the unethical practices divulged by "Operation Fouled Anchor".

Born and raised in Hockinson Washington, she was the youngest of four and have three older brothers. She grew up in an extremely patriotic family with a long line of veterans and a mother who dedicated her entire career caring for veterans on hospice at the VA.

Meghan left for the Coast Guard a month after her nineteenth birthday in September of 2012. She served until her medical discharge in may of 2015. Meghan married her husband in February of 2013 at 19. She has been married eleven years. They have three sons that are being raised on a small farm in rural Oregon. She now has followed her dream of running a photography business and has for the last six and a half years.