Half of academy sex assaults were Air Force

[unhappycamper]

Half of academy sex assaults were Air Force
By Patrick Winn - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Dec 10, 2007 16:40:57 EST

Nearly half of all sex assaults cited in a new Defense Department review of military academies arose from the Air Force Academy.

On Dec. 7, the Pentagon released an evaluation of a confidential sexual assault reporting option available at the military academies. At the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy and the Air Force Academy, 40 sex assaults were reported from June 2006 to the end of May.

Half of those reporting the crimes chose to use a new method available starting in 2005 that offers mental and medical care to victims but doesn’t notify commanders or raise criminal charges.

With 19 accusations ranging from rape to fondling, the Air Force Academy accounted for nearly half of the total reports. Nine of those reports are, at this time, not prosecuted because the accuser opted for a confidential report.

The Pentagon, while deeming the Air Force Academy compliant with its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response guidelines, offered several suggestions. They include: working to understand why victims chose confidential reports, ensuring each victim speaks with a judge advocate who can advise them on their rights and better awareness programs for all cadets.


Rest of article at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/12/airforce_academy_sex_assault_071210w/

[xchrom]

1. the ''christianized'' air force. nt

[MADem]

2. How ironic, since they're the academy with the Fundie/Evangelical/Jeebus problems. NT

[lynnertic]

3. It would only be ironic if you expect

a male-dominated subculture to respect women.

[MADem]

5. Before they got uber-fundy, they were the best of the lot in that regard.

Seriously.

I'm not saying they were saints, but they had strong SH prevention programs and toed the line pretty well. This shit is new.

Army and Marines used to be pretty bad, and USN not so hot either, but USAF had fewer incidents as a percentage of their total numbers than the others, once upon a time.

That was back when they had a massive number of Mormons relative to their total population. I think the fundies have the critical mass now.

[rakeeb]

6. I don't think any branch of the military ever had

a "massive" number of Mormons, except maybe the Utah National Guard.

[MADem]

7. The Air Force did--at least compared to other branches in terms of percentage of the total

Get a load of this link: http://www.lds.org/institutes/home/0,8473,768-1-36-60808,00.html

There may be a few surprises in this list: http://www.famousmormons.net/military.html

Their numbers at the USAF Academy aren't insignificant. Most of the USAF general officers that I knew were Mormons.

[rakeeb]

9. what kind of numbers are you talking about? They make up

about 1% of Americans, I would find it difficult to believe that Mormons ever made up more than a single digit percentage in any branch of service.
I have personally known 4 times as wiccans than Mormons in the Army, and that does not lead me to think that wiccans make up a huge number in the Army.

[MADem]

11. I'm telling you, I've been stationed with USAF guys where we'd have these

massive 'dining outs' and we'd enjoy the hell out of them, because easily a third of their wardroom (or whatever the hell they call it) were non-drinking, proud as punch (and drinking that punch, too) Mormons. We USN reprobate-baastids would cheerfully scarf up all the wine they couldn't be bothered to drink and make reasonably short work of it.

The numbers, particular at the senior ranks, were almost freakish, in my experience. My 'default mode' was to assume any general officer I met was Mormon until I learned otherwise.

There are three times more Mormons than there are Jews at the USAF Academy and Jews are, what, one percent of the population as well? I happen to know one of the people who were doing that investigation into the abuses there a few years back, and while the Mormons weren't the big problem in terms of the bullying/prosletyzing that was going on, they were a rather surprising "mass" to the investigators, who knew they were there but were a bit surprised at the numbers.

The ones that stay in, it would seem, move up. They also use them in the intel community to a large extent, because they learn a foreign language, many of them, in order to go do those 'missions' with the shirt and tie and bike, where they run around a foreign country trying to convert people.

[rakeeb]

12. It is not uncommon for Air Force (or other branch) officers

to abstain from drinking at a dining out when they notice the higher ranking zeros not drinking.

That being said, I recall an old joke that goes "If you go fishing with Mormons you have to bring two minimum, because if you just bring one, he'll drink all your beer."

[MADem]

13. Not in this case--the senior ranking blue suiter was a Roman Catholic who liked to give it a belt.

We're talking "true believers." Numbers well in excess of national averages, too. And the paradigm repeated itself over the course of decades, in my experience.

I had a chief who worked for me from the PI who was a Mormon, too (I found that rather interesting--he 'got it' from his wife,who got it from those missionary types on the bicycles). He was rather a 'Jack Mormon' as they say (a bad Catholic who took the path of least resistance) --he never shied away from the brewskis but the drill made his wife happy so he played along. He knew a lot of those USAF guys from their little Mormon get-togethers and he said they were seriously hard-core. It wasn't a 'peer pressure' evolution, they were into it.

From what I've seen, the USAF/Mormon phenomenon is actually more prevalent than Catholics in the Marine Corps, who are clustered in the senior ranks of that branch, to a noticeable extent, and who demand the 'best' Catholic priests from the DON (who provides them, along with corpsmen) for their branch.

[rakeeb]

4. kinda makes you wonder how many more assaults go on

unreported at public colleges ten times the size of an academy, with rampant alcohol and zero authority....

[flashl]

8. DOE Campus security report

Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool Website

The Campus Security Data Analysis Cutting Tool Website is brought to you by the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U. S. Department of Education. This analysis cutting tool was designed to provide rapid customized reports for public inquiries relating to campus crime data. The data are drawn from the OPE Campus Security Statistics Website database to which crime statistics are submitted annually, via a Web-based data collection, by all postsecondary institutions that receive Title IV funding (i.e., those that participate in federal student aid programs) as required by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act.

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DOE data relies on accurate reporting from campuses in the same manner as FBI crime report.

[rakeeb]

10. great campus research tool, I'll have to remember it when

we start shopping for colleges for the kids.

Sad though, USAFA had as many reported incidents as UC Boulder.

But like I was wondering earlier, I wonder how many go unreported in public universities.
The academies have been dropping the hammer trying to make it easier and safer to report incidents compared to state-funded four year drinking programs.