Posted on 12/12/2014 7:38:15 AM PST by shove_it
Outgoing Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel recently reported on the efforts his department has made against sexual assault within the ranks of the military. A year ago, President Obama directed Hagel to conduct a full review of progress being made, and while Hagel reported a decrease of twenty-five percent in the prevalence of sexual assault, he said "[t]here’s much more to be done."
One area of progress Hagel cited was simply in the reporting of such assaults, which he said has increased by 50 percent in just a year. He said it is believed now that one in four assaults are reported, whereas two years ago it was one in ten. The statistics are based on surveys taken throughout the military.
The improvements are due, at least in part, Hagel believes, from increased confidence victims now have in the ability of the military to deal with these crimes. "Compared to 2010," Hagel said, "because more survivors participated in the justice system than ever before, we’ve been able to hold more perpetrators accountable."
Another factor may be the sheer number of personnel the Pentagon now has committed to dealing with the problem. "We now have over 1,000 full-time certified response coordinators and victim advocates," Hagel revealed at the press conference, "and over 17,000 volunteer personnel ready to assist survivors."
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Everyone.
And I’m not excluding the liberals who told us this wouldn’t happen - they knew, too.
Do they organize sex parties?
Another way to spend money on other than war fighting and defense.
Send them into the college campuses. And to Hollywood
I NEVER had a problem I try to remind well meaning unsolicited advisers that twelve years in and during deployments usually 200 to 1 males to females not a problem
Girls need to figure out what people told me a long time ago. Don’t be out drinking with the boys
And nothing good happens after midnight (at an officers club bar on a Friday night, make that 8 pm or 7 to be sure
And that’s it
Moreover, all male Warriors were smeared by the media, Democrats, and Obama as guilty sexual assaulting rapists for being born male. The "disprove a negative" argument is used: feminists claim most assaults cannot be accounted for because most are "non-reported".....so you are all guilty.
I believe the number is misleading. Lieutenants on their first duty station are assigned collateral duties that often require certification. The ‘1,000’ are most-likely in this category.
The part-time types are typically spouses. When I was Company Commander, my wife was the offical head of the MWR for the company. Squadron, Battalion, Group, Regiment, Wing and Division CO’s wives are all in this category.
That's an entire division. Imagine an entire division of sexual assault response coordinators trapped at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, or hunkered down at Khe Sanh.
Also consider that Sen. Gillebrand recently said in a CNN interview that the majority of the complaints were from MEN. The term sexual assault also includes unwanted sexual attention for these reporting purposes.
As in /sarc?
Only it's too serious to be sarcasm...
And too outrageous.
Hundreds of millions of dollars that could have been given to the troops as a pay raise is instead wasted on this.
You should know better than to inject facts into a thread that is going off the rails at mach speed.
But in the interest of confirming said facts, I’ll try to join you...
Additional duties for many Officers and NCO’s and in some cases, civilian volunteers is how the vast majority of these “coordinator” positions are filled.
I’ve seen this at the AFB I work on...
Stories like this solidify my unchanging view that women and fags should not be in the military. The purpose of military is to kill and break things. Period. Anything else is a waste of money and degrades the effectiveness of our national defense. Note: I am ok with women being nurses. They can tend to warriors when they are not capable of killing and breaking things.
I guess you can put me down as an old fashioned relic of the past. However, back in the early days of my Army Career we segregated Male and Female soldiers. The female soldiers were called the “Womens Army Corps” and had their own training facilities separate from the men. We also had a draft back then, but that was confined to men. We never co-mingled the male and female soldiers and for the life of me,I can’t remember any sexual assault allegations of female (WAC) soldiers by male soldiers. Maybe my memory is experiencing senior moments, but that is my recall. Is it possible that our efforts to create a “unisex” has negative consequences? Oh well,I guess I am not “progressive” enough.
I’ve made the same comments to the SARCs and their BS answer was that the women back them were getting raped but were not reporting it.
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