Army Times: One-third of domestic violence victims in active-duty military....

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Army Special Forces Sgt. Casey Gray clearly recalls the day when his fiancée turned violent.

Gray was severely injured in a helicopter crash in early 2011 and was recuperating at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. He was in a wheelchair, with his arm in a sling and his head covered in bandages.

The couple was at a nearby hotel where she was staying when they got into an argument about money, he said.

“She struck me on the left side of my face where I had skull fractures,” Gray said in an interview. “I had stitches in my lips and it busted open. She knocked me to the ground and jumped on my back and hit me.”

Gray said he feared for his safety as the woman, about 5 feet, 8 inches tall with a fit body, pounded him with closed fists.

“I crawled and limped through the hotel door and she was like, ‘Oh, what are you going to do now?’” he said. “I put the chain on the door and she was yelling ‘Let me in, I want to talk to you.’ But I just called the police.”

Gray said he sought counseling and was later diagnosed with a condition known as “battered woman syndrome.”

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