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But Austin and Milley voiced reservations about overhauling the military justice system for all serious crimes, as outlined in a bill from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

In a 20/20 special on ABC News set to air on Friday night, Juan Cruz spoke about the first time he met Vanessa Guillen.

But Austin and Milley voiced reservations about overhauling the military justice system for all serious crimes, as outlined in a bill from Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.

The sinking of an amphibious assault vehicle last summer killed eight Marines and a sailor.

That may be the way the process unfolds from here, but it would be a mistake — and a tragic one, given the difficulty of getting Congress to focus on military justice in a sustained way. It would take years for the military justice system to recover if Congress takes the wrong path at the current fork in the legislative road. Why not fix the structure for prosecuting just sex offenses? Here are two compelling reasons to resist that temptation: First, the problem of lay decision making on mili...

The United States’ top general on Thursday said he thinks a proposal to remove military prosecutions of all serious crimes from the chain-of-command “requires some detailed study” while reiterating his openness to such a change only for

Lloyd Austin signaled support for removing sexual assault cases from the military chain of command but declined to endorse a broader measure to deal with other serious crimes.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley told lawmakers that climate change is a serious threat facing the United States.

Recommendation to the president? >> this would be a very big change. i served on a commission under the obama administration looking at sexual assault and how the pentagon handled it, how all the military services handled it, and we were to the allowed to look at whether the chain of command would be affected. anything that has to do with taking, reporting of sexual assault out of the chain of command, would be a very big deal and would be a major change to the uniform code of military justice. ...

Austin expressed his openness? >> reporter: this is a big deal for the military. what this means is, right now the way -- its going to change the way that the military prosecutes sexual harassment and sexual assault. right now, if theres an allegation of harassment or assault, thats handled within what the military calls the chain of command. if you needed to report one of those issues, you would go to your boss. they would decide whether its serious enough to move it into the court-martial proc...