Our Women in Uniform Deserve Better

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Our-Women-in-Uniform-Deser-by-Other-Words-130522-755.html



The Pentagon has a systemic problem with foxes guarding henhouses when it comes to doing battle with the military's sexual assault problem.

Our Women in Uniform Deserve Better
By Other Words
OpEdNews Op Eds 5/22/2013 at 14:08:23

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While men still comprise the overwhelming majority of our troops and officers, the number of women has risen substantially in the last decade. Unfortunately, so has the numbers of rapes and other sexual assaults. In fact, military women are much more likely to be sexually assaulted by a fellow soldier than killed by an enemy.

This month, the Pentagon released the latest grim statistics on this front: There were 3,374 reported cases of sexual assault in the ranks over the course of the 2012 fiscal year, and officials believe an additional 26,000 sexual assaults went unreported. Despite all the attention this problem has garnered for years, sexual assault is growing more common. The official rate is up by 13 percent and the unreported estimated rate has climbed 35 percent in the past two years.

Those shameful numbers don't have to speak for themselves. The Pentagon's report came just two days after Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, the Air Force officer in charge of sexual assault training, was arrested for -- you guessed it -- getting drunk and sexually assaulting a complete stranger in an Arlington, Virginia parking lot.

A week later, the military said it was investigating whether Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen, a man whose job it was to prevent sexual abuse and harassment at Ft. Hood in Texas, was himself committing a battery of sexual offenses -- and even running a prostitution ring.



unhappycamper comment: One Brigadier General, Jeffery Sinclair, will be coming up for trial soon for sexual assault, sodomy and porn on his PC. (look in this forum for past articles about Jeff)

Brig. Gen. Bryan T. Roberts was suspended for his post at Ft. Jackson, SC while the military investigates allegations of "adultery and a physical altercation," officials said. --> http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/05/21/191901/pentagon-faces-another-sex-scandal.html

Many of the good ole boys at the Pentagon still don't get it. And I doubt they will until officers and NCOs are jailed for their crimes; nothing will change within the culture of military rape until that happens.