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Sexually assaulted by a dozen male drill instructors since 2009. casey stiegel is looking into this for us in dallas. casey, this scandal really started to explode, hasn't it? >> reporter: yeah, martha, it really has. it was first made public a year ago when a female airman down there accused of one of her spears yors of rape. that is really when this started to unravel. once the u.s. military began looking into the matter they discovered it actually had been going on for about three years since 2009, and now a total of 12 training instructors at lackland air force base are being investigated ...

Tolerance for any form of sexual assault. this matter i can assure you is going to be fully investigated. >> reporter: air force leaders say they believe all 31 of the female victims are still in the air force. now their basic training instructors, 12 are under investigation. >> harris: i understand this has gotten the attention of lawmakers in washington. what happens next on that regard? >> reporter: one female member of congress says the military has shown it isn't able to police itself on matters of race and sexual assaults and she wants changes now. >> solution is to take the reporting an...

Tolerance for any form of sexual assault and, this matter, i can assure you, is going to be fully investigated. >> reporter: air force leaders say they believe all 31 of the female victims are still in the air force. but, now their basic training instructors as you said, harris, 12 are under investigation. >> harris: i understand this has gotten the attention of lawmakers in washington, too, as well. what happens next? in that regard? >>eporter: one female member of congress says the military has shown it isn't able to police itself on matters of race and sexual assault and wants some changes ...

>> reporter: women make up about 22% of air force recruits there and only 10 be of basic training instructors. one female member of congress says the military has shown it can't police itself on race and sexual assault. >> the solution is to take the reporting and investigation of cases of rape and sexual assault out of the military chain of command and place them in a separate office independent of the chain of command with the authority to investigate and prosecute within the military. >> there are 500 basic training instructors and nine being investigated are also in the same squad. leader ...

Instructors. national security correspondent jennifer griffin has more. >> reporter: an air force general confirmed to us that 31 women going through the air force' basic training program were sexually assaulted by their air force trainers between 2009 and 2011. nine of those trainers were from the same squadron, at 331 at lock lynn air force in and antonio, texas where airman go through an 8.5 week training course. the rest of the squadron is training, one person has been relieved of duty. >> no one is more angry and disappointed than they are, that a relatively small number of their quadry h...