On 3/17/2013 10:19 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 3/17/13 10:17 AM, J Herring wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 17:01:49 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

...the military establishment:


Veterans Testify on Rapes and Scant Hope of Justice
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

WASHINGTON — Choking back tears and in voices edged with rage, two women
and a man who served in the American military told a Senate panel on
Wednesday how they were raped by superiors and then ridiculed or ignored
by military officials from whom they sought help.


While some individual military personnel obviously are pigs, the blame
for these thousands of sexual assaults lies squarely on the shoulders of
the military hierarchy/establishment, which obviously tolerates the
behavior, despite lip service to the contrary. Nineteen thousand sexual
assaults a year - mind boggling.


Yes, it is.

This idea has some merit, I think.

"Many members of the committee said they would like to see all sex
offenders in the military discharged from service and would like to
replace the current system of adjudicating sexual assault by taking it
outside a victim’s chain of command."

I'm thinking the second part of the statement. Right now, the military
justice system requires too
much at the unit level, beginning with the commander of the unit in
which the victim is assigned.
I'm thinking victims of sexual attacks should have a different route
to take, like going straight to
the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) (in the Army) for
investigation and subsequent action.
Subsequent action should be taken away from the immediate chain of
command. Commanders should be
required, upon learning of any alleged sexual attack, to turn the
matter over to CID immediately.

This would be difficult to accomplish on a ship, however. But I'm sure
the Navy could come up with
their own ideas.


Salmonbait

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'Name-calling'...the liberals' last resort.



So long as "discharged from the service" includes time in military or
federal slammers for those adjudicated guilty of these violent physical
assaults...

Such outrage. Did the general whom you had the pleasure of serving under
subject you to violent physical attacks?