(CNN) -- Karley Marquet and Annie Kendzior said they enrolled at two of the nation's most prestigious military academies to serve their country and become military officers. Instead, they claim, they were raped -- and their military careers are now over. In a lawsuit filed in U.S. Federal Court on Friday, the women claim the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, and the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, ignored "rampant sexual harassment." The suit claims former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the former superintendents of the two academies and the current secretaries of the Army and Navy are "personally responsible" for failing to "prevent rapes and sexual assaults at the Naval Academy and West Point."
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Karley Marquet and Annie Kendzior both say they were raped at service academies
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U.S. Military Academy
West Point
She could have gone to college anywhere with her credentials, but Marquet chose @placeholder.
Karley Marquet
Karley Marquet
But @placeholder said her dream of becoming an officer was shattered in January 2011, her second semester at West Point.
Karley Marquet
Karley Marquet
It was then, @placeholder, said, that an upperclassman she knew showed up at her door late one night to talk "girl troubles."
Annie Kendzior
Annie Kendzior
@placeholder was also an all-star student and one of the best high school soccer players in the country.
Annie Kendzior
Annie Kendzior
"I could tell that there was a bias towards women," @placeholder recalled.
Karley Marquet
Karley Marquet
@placeholder remembered investigators meeting with her parents about her case.
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
She said she was unable to handle the stress of seeing the alleged perpetrator every day, so she resigned from @placeholder.