VA working to make female veterans more welcome, visible

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By John Ismay

Maggie Castillotorres says it’s easy to feel invisible in society as a woman veteran, but she wasn’t expecting to have that experience when she walked into a Veterans Affairs hospital in San Diego.

“They said, ‘Are you here with your spouse? Are you the spouse of a veteran?'” she says. “It happened several times.”

Castillotorres, who served in the U.S. Navy for eight years, is one of the growing population of women service members leaving the military and finding themselves in a veterans system that’s not quite ready for them.

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