Posted on 06/07/2013 6:10:28 AM PDT by marjiwoj
You know things are bad when the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Raymond Odierno, issues a statement to the troops declaring that "the fight against sexual assault and sexual harassment is our primary mission." [1] And Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has announced that sequestration cutbacks will affect everyone but sexual assault professionals in the military. [2] Let's hope that our nation's potential adversaries don't take advantage of our military leaders' current distractions.
The Pentagon has been hit by an internal explosive device − the latest report of the Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Office (SAPRO). In two hefty volumes, the 2013 SAPRO report documents the dysfunctional consequences of social experiments with human sexuality in our military over many years. Failing to see the big picture, the Department of Defense is moving ahead with plans to extend problems of sexual assault and misconduct into the combat arms...
(Excerpt) Read more at cmrlink.org ...
>Looks like 60% of those are homosexual assaults on men. Don’t ask, don’t tell is working.<
This was a problem long before don’t ask-don’t tell. In 1967 while in the 101st @ Ft Campbell we had a barracks feeler-upper who would feel up guys in the middle of the night while they were asleep. Caught him one night and gave him a practice jump from a 2nd story window of the barracks. Needless to say he failed to obtain a workable PLF and broke a leg. He never returned because back then they kicked them out on an undesirable discharge.
Which he got upgraded because Kerry had to get his too.
Thanks for the belly laugh.
Well, lets keep in mind that this is the most intelligent and most highly educated military in our history. Most have at least a high school diploma and very few come from the bottom quartile of our social/economic spectrum. So, what all that being said the military still can not make the integration of gays and the integration of women into the combat arms work. If we should ever get into a big shooting war that would require the re-activation of the draft I shudder to think of the total breakdown of discipline, morale, and mission that would occur. I’m a Vietnam vet and the discipline and social problems that we had among the enlisted ranks was a disaster, especially towards the end. And, that was without these new variables recently introduced....
I wonder if it even registers on the priority list at all considering the urgency of "path to citizenship" for illegal alien gang bangers.
Damn strait...
5.56mm
An interesting sub-paragraph:
•Anu Bhagwati, Executive director of the Service Women Action Network (SWAN) referenced the previous year’s SAPRO report for 2012, analyzing 2011 data. before the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, “The DoD estimates that 19,300 sexual assaults occurred in 2010, and that while 8,600 victims were female, 10,700 were male.”
more male than female sexual assault victims — Verrrrry Interrrrresting.
It is not really surprising that there were more male than female sexual assaults reported. DADT protected homosexuals, both male and female. In the case of gay females in the military, the officers refused to report woman on woman attacks or even question the attacker. (from anecdotal evidence). I hear that straight women were leaving the military because of the attacks and threats of attacks by other women.
Not surprising that there are more male-on-male sexual assaults, because here are still far more males than females in the Miliatry.
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