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Saw it was like. This great weight had been lifted off for me. I think its important to recognize that military sexual trauma is not limited to women and in fact when it comes to the absolute numbers because of the proportion of men in much larger numbers than women actually the numbers are even greater. I think one of the last bits of research showed that about one percent of males had been victims of Sexual Assault within the past year in the military that equals to about 20000 youll get labeled as a body and thats the nice term to be related to so its one of the things that you just dont you dont talk about it or you dont bring in what is your sense you just kind of keep yourself its really really hard there for you. You know and. They live in my head you know i can hear them. I can see their faces i can see what theyre doing to me. I felt scared. And i was scared to tell my friends the people that really knew me the truth about what happened the shame as bad as it is for women is even worse for men because its all tied in with homophobia the people who are doing the raping are not gay thats not the problem theyre worried about gays in the military the gays are not the rapists theyre heterosexual man for the most part this is not an issue of Sexual Orientation this is simply power and violence male sexual predators for the large part have charge of whoever is there to prey upon whether thats men or women whenever. There is. Evidence of another when one has been sexually assaulted the question i keep asking myself is when does this ever. Breaking news at this hour but maybe appears to be facing a huge sex scandal details are still covering yeah. This news girl news to tell you would be a good journey to do were going to begin tonight by putting a human face on the worst case of Sexual Harassment of the navys history at an annual naval aviators convention called the Tailhook Convention so your office whos. Been included the socalled stand up or the specific purpose of targeting and sexually molesting women. I got off the elevator on the 3rd floor you can see it in the 200 men. It was just a few steps into the hallway before. They closed ranks around me and then it happened very quickly that from both sides and from behind men came in and started reaching in my shirt i was getting pushed down to the floor and some was reaching under my skirt point my underwear off and it was about maybe 30 or 40 feet of 200 guys trying to pull my clothes off like i was a high value target and investigation was finally begun. But 1500 interviews later the navys Inspector General reported that his investigators were being stonewalled a great wall of silence had gone up to protect the guilty. The us army today is trying to establish the extent of a new and growing rape and Sexual Harassment scandal at all took place at the army base at Aberdeen Proving Ground where 30 women have filed complaints of sexual advances that range from unwanted touching to rape and forcible sodomy acceptable conduct for shoulders to bow to the army and we have 0 tolerance. 12 years ago. Though shook the u. S. Navy and the air force faces what may be an even bigger problem and other sexual abuse at the air force academy in Colorado Springs 100 out of 42 allegations of assault against women have been made in the last decade one highest ranking air force generals knew about Serious Problems of Sexual Assault at the academy yet failed to take action we dont intend to sort this under the rug we take it very seriously were going to address it publicly in Congress Outrage senators accused the air force brass of ignoring assaults on women we have a clear pattern. Of reports of Sexual Assault where the reaction of the air force academy seems to be to blame the victim we are in the process of is to those changes now the process when studios changes now obviously you and i and secretary of fundamental disagreement here. In a small post in washington d. C. Or even prior history tradition living. Room where in washington d. C. Is the most prestigious unit there is in the marine corps this is the unit where the best of the best go it is the marine corps showcase ceremonial unit it handles president s and dignitaries security at the white house the silent drill team. After my deployment to Operation Iraqi freedom in 2002009 my command officer recommended me for the Marine Barracks washington i was excited it was the tip of the spear as far as the marine corps is concerned. He would stay work late and then she would drive home and shed call me and shed be on some kind a little and she talked she loved her job she was. Sweet person who was trying really hard. And succeeding. One of the 1st things i was told my entire dinner was. Dont wear any makeup because the marines will think that you want to sleep with them and i thought thats just ridiculous the atmosphere off the bat at Marine Barracks washington was was horrible people asked me what sexual favors had i performed to get my orders there. There was a senior officer in my command who the 1st time he spoke to me he said female marines here are nothing but objects for the marines to. Sew the men in the female shows up at my work shes mentally ill. All of the new females get talked about say that theyre having facts slip so i stopped all that and i mean i did it got progressively worse and worse they determined that i welcomed the Sexual Harassment by wearing my regulation length uniform skirt and running and running shorts. There were several junior female marines that came up to me crying while i was there saying that they felt humiliated to come to work. The. One of the duties at Marine Barracks washington was a ceremonial drill and evening parades are what you would see on the news the. President everybody goes to those type of things. After the parades. All the officers are required to stay told midnight. Drink inside our house washington so were talking about ones the happy hours that started 3 and. It was a pounding and drinking culture revolved around going out and partying and drinking i was ordered to drink i was ordered to attend the drinking of my boss even said. They were mandatory to me shes like we do our best work at these events we went to various bars and the goal was to do a shot at each one paid for by the marine corps youre talking about youre going to bounce for other Senior Officers that are drinking to the point of hands you know pass it on ma lawns this is the norm one bar i had water and i was ordered to shot anyways and told i needed to take 2 shots to make up for that. I left the bar to get a cab my Company Commander followed me and said i need to talk to you about some things so we walked up the stairs into his office there was a little bit of a struggle he tried to kind of make an advance and try to kiss me i tried to leave any slammed the door on my arm. I fell on the ground and hit my face on his desk and the next thing i realized was i had woken up wearing his shorts with all of my clothes off and tremendous pain i knew enough about me that something wasnt right and i had felt entirely violated the. Colonel one point said you know whos had a home or boys girls now call just dont mix well never really know what happened inside that office. Only one the major now and he is not talking so at this point the investigation is closed for lack of evidence and we have reopened a new investigation against you for conduct unbecoming an officer and public intoxication. Of. Tensions between the masses and clauses have existed ever since modern states came into being but often serve as a driver of political change with Russian Civil Society growing larger and louder against the excesses of the governing elites what does the future of the political system look like. 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And one red rose another suggestion geo political jeopardy parody no political cookout where we will literally. Be elites. Late night show its a rare format these days and its cheap all you need is an old microphone in a printed banner if i have to agree with them i guess i can do this candle after politics gone wild like music. Ok crosstalk is not about hype its about meaning 10 years of talk and still going strong. Peter if you want to change something why dont we get rid of the. No that is too much. Were going to the bar. With an officer that. After ive had a couple drinks. Thats all. That he had. Got called up to the majors office. Me with fractionation adultery. He was married i wasnt and i was trying to but. I told him. About it in the comments and he said. You know you should do what a marine officer. Should do and thats to ignore it and move on. I used to lie awake compared to you know wondering. What i could do to help her get out. Hes. Told anybody that he was going to have his friend marvin from india to kill me and throw me in a ditch because thats how they take care of things in india that. She went to war and im yours for life. For them to take it. And come back and say boy yes they called you a yes they called you a yes they called you a walking mattress its documented over and over and over again you deserved it and you won and when you complained about it you were welcoming it. The actions of my seniors both in the assault and and the ensuing investigations have really destroyed me. When you when your wife doesnt come home to. Who her brother from its through that house searching for the suicide note be to call the police one hand. Put the restraining her from killing herself with the other the. I think the thing that makes me the most angry is not even an assault its the commanders that were complicit in covering up everything that happened. This is an organization that gives commanders an unbelievable amount of power and i felt it as a lieutenant in iraq its scary you appoint the prosecution you appoint the defense you appoint the investigator in charge of the police force youre in charge of the community youre on everything you are a judge or jury or executioner most americans assume that there is access to a system of justice so that for example of your civilian and your rape you can call the police and then you have prosecutors other federal prosecutors state prosecutors local prosecutors they bring the perpetrator to justice the problem with the military is that instead they have to go to their chain of command now in our system of military justice it is the commander whos responsible you know to the chain of command for how that investigation proceeds i know that theres been numerous times in my career that i regretted that individual commander had the total say saw over a case and most him dont have the training or the education to determine whats appropriate and serious felony commodus cations the problem in the military is the convening authority who is not legally trained makes the final decision. They had it to command at my old squadron where they got it right and he was still stationed. He had only been and command for 4 days and he made the decision over illegal to stop the case when i saw was was commanders i mean these are Field Grade Officers Lieutenant Colonels colonels. Who have been in 2025 years you know theyre career officers they sweep cases under the rug the last thing a Company Commander in the army wants to do is make the phone call to his or her Battalion Commander to say i have had a allegation of a rape in my unit this is viewed in many cases as a failure to command that will adversely then affect their career sometimes youd see a guy get for 5 years through for selling my remote drugs and youd see a guy get you know 2 weeks duty for a rape that the military hides behind this notion that it is really really hard almost impossible to prosecute rape but when you look at prosecution rates in the 2010 department of defense reports you begin with 2410 unrestricted reports and 748 restricted what that means is theyve already funneled 748 Sexual Assault victims into a system that has absolutely no adjudication whatsoever. Then you take the 2410 that have been reported of those they identify 3223 perpetrators know what happens once you send a perpetrator over to command well the command has just completely unfettered discretion to do whatever it is they want and what is it that they do do 1st off they drop 910. 00 of them they just dont do anything then of the 1025. 00 where they actually take some action through the Court Martial them know only half of them 529 actually got Court Martialled the rest 256 were subjected to article 15 punishments 190 administrative discharges and then 131 to quote other adverse administrative actions whatever that means and then of the convictions where they actually get jail time when you work your way all the way through the numbers what youre looking at is that out of 3223. 00 perpetrators only 175. 00 end up doing any jail time whatsoever. I have been in congress for 7 terms now and every single term we have had meetings with d. O. T. D. And they come in and they confirm to the us to us were going to be serious were going to take care of this were going to stop this 0 tolerance but the rhetoric is not being turned into the reality of protecting our women and in some cases men in our military and their like but we have to start programs like great. What is that. They can strongly suggest to the military to do something. Brothers and sisters. Personal duty to prevent Sexual Assault they cant order them they cant enforce it they dont back it up and i call of this year we will debut a social Marketing Campaign as part of our prevention strategy that inside. My. School i saw my buddies did. Its ludicrous you know its. You know we have posters that say wait until shes sober im its remarkable that thats allowed to pass and in todays military weve implemented training at each and every level of military service from the moment they enter the service and basic training they are given that our campaign consist of a series of posters that are actually training tools and each of those posters has a different focus you cannot perform Sexual Assault with pretty posters posters do not prevent sexual predators from preying upon women and men in the military were talking about people barging into rooms in the middle of the night posters going to prevent a criminal from version of these are violent people but one of the things that we do in our prevention strategy is to focus on Bystander Intervention and strategy and in that training we ask for each soldier sailor airman or marine to be aware of what Sexual Assault is and how to prevent it sark is a joke the things that they say ignored or there may. Be just. You know maybe a video or 20 slides its like a lot of military training words once a year check in the box. Welcome back a little yeah its just a short walk to watch you. And all the money seems to be spent on advertising which is just right with victim blaming. The its just i just wanted to let you. Know there. Are you by yourself or your body i didnt think i needed it was Sexual Assault is pretty. Are you doing your part and so this notion that you know essentially like anyone could be a rape us we all have to be on alert it misses an opportunity to take real steps towards preventing rape if they actually had systems of accountability that prosecuted and imprisoned perpetrators you would get rid of a lot of the rapes right away how would you characterize the typical sex offender well if i look at our data from the department of defense its young people that are ages 18 to 2425 when you say that most of them are serial rapists. I dont have data one way or the other to determine that what percentage of the rapes you think are caused by serial predator. I dont i dont have any numbers i dont know how to i dont think we collect that type of data theres been studies done of people who enter the military are twice as likely to have committed rape as their equivalent population in the civilian world not aware of that study my area of expertise focuses primarily on prevention and victim care but when prevention includes focusing on the perpetrators. I notice that dr kay whitley is not in her chair is it under your direction that she has not shown her testimony this morning yes or you have an executive privilege to do a search no sir youve instructed her not to come what is your reason for doing that if you find the departments response in provisions efforts fall short of your expectations responsibility for that shortfall rests with me the ridiculous answer when the it is that youre trying to hide we all remember tailhook at the scandal and how the military tried to cover that up i dont know who. Do you think a lefty view to defy the congress of the United States were an independent branch of government so for now is the biggest youre dismissed. Intimacy is definitely in fact and. Theyll go for months without stags. I have to initiate if im comfortable enough if im having a good day and i think my husband looks off in the day i have to initiate. When he comes up and hugs me sometimes i cringe and i just want him to you know like hell feel it oh. Oh oh oh oh oh oh yes. Sometimes i think if when he has sex with me is he thinking about even me getting raped is he up sad is he in now because i think of i think about that it all right never does it not enter my head thats why i didnt want to have sex for a while. When we almost split up because theres stuff i feel like im responsible. I dont know what id do if i was. Told. Loans. Hes like me only supporter. Like my own. Join me every thursday on the alex im unsure when ill be speaking to get out of the world of politics sports business im show business ill see you then. But end of seaborne you possibly going to do the dishes but there was more in those jeans new speeches. See me we need to you. As and about as normal when you guys e. Q. s. In the news i mean that is or that in fact involve. A lot of people through flowing and fuzzy fights about 2 kids each other both sides most. 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