Posted on 06/30/2023 8:17:43 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The US Coast Guard covered up more than 100 instances of rape, sexual assault and other sexual misconduct at its Connecticut officer training academy dating back to the 1980s, a secret investigation found.
The “Operation Fouled Anchor” probe, which was kept confidential by top military officials for several years, revealed that the alleged crimes were ignored or covered up by top officials, CNN reported Friday.
“There was a disturbing pattern of not treating reported sexual assaults as criminal matters,” a draft of the report stated.
Most of the credibly accused suspects never faced criminal investigations, instead being slapped with extra homework or lowered class standings if they were punished with administrative violations at all.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
“The US Coast Guard covered up ...”
Headline says “dismissed”, first sentence says “covered up”. One is not necessarily the same as the other. Cases can be dismissed for all sorts of legitimate reasons like, the investigators found evidence contradicting the accusation, the accuser recanted, or there was not sufficient evidence found to pursue the accusation. None of those kinds of reasons would constitute a “cover up”.
Well, that’s when Ford started making the Probe.
“Officer training Academy?” Is the the Coast Guard Academy or some OCS facility?
Is buried probe appropriate for a headline about rape?
“Rape” is listed first because its the most serious allegation. of 100 cases, Ill bet 75% are accusations of someone looking at them wrong, 20% are groping and 4% are actually rape investigations. The MSM lies !!
Kinda like Biden and Reid?
are they gay rapes? The left woudl cover something like that up-
Seems it was the USCG Academy and the intern “reporter” at NYP should go back to journalism school. Or maybe J school is the problem.
Instead of “rape,” the incidents were determined to be routine boarding procedures.
Headline sounds sensationalized to me.
A friend of mine may have been involved. He was an Academy graduate. He said there was some very serious sexual harassment that he was a victim of. It was so bad that they allowed him out of his service commitment.
The “Fouled Anchor probe”?
Are they serious?
Sounds offensive to CPOs.
Right-
It’s a reciprocal argument.
~90% (and that BTW used to be a real statistic years past) of all EEO complaints are dismissed because they are found to be BULLSHIT right up front.
The system is more abused, than legitimately used. Of course the folks who were slandering others have no real recourse and the accuser has no skin in the game (no legal costs) nor concern of repercussions either legal or administrative. You can lie and accuse folks and nothing will happen to you, even if found out (but that’s not the story here).
The reciprocal argument of how the system is abused by minorities and women, is to claim that many cases are “dismissed.”
You can make a reciprocal argument with almost anything:
Taking the fight to the enemy in Iraq 2003 is turned into: there was no AQ in Iraq until we invaded.
Blacks committing more violent crimes and with higher rates of incarceration is turned into: disproportionate numbers of blacks in prison is because our justice system is racist.
You can take almost all argument and flip it around.
Should read: Of course the folks who were slandered have no real recourse and the accuser...
The “reputation” of all the U.S. military services should be sought by being an institution that comes clean about problems in the institution, not covering things up. THAT transparency would over time enhance the reputation of the instutition.
We have a little bit of that in our military but it's really bad in Russia.
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