Respect our military, dammit

Young women troops at training bases and sailors assigned to ships faced the highest risk of sexual assault in the military, according a report released Friday by the Pentagon.

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"A large proportion of all sexual assaults occur at a relatively few large installations for each of the services," according to the report. "The Army and Marine Corps, for instance, each have installations where we estimate there were more than 500 sexual assaults of women and men in 2014."

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At the Navy's highest-risk installation for women, Naval Support Activity Charleston, RAND researchers found that women there faced a 17.1 percent risk of sexual assault in 2014. "That is, our model estimates that more than one in six women assigned to duty at that installation were sexually assaulted in FY 2014." The RAND report found that "ships dominate the highest-risk installations. Of the 15 highest-risk installations for Navy women, 13 are ships or clusters of ships, including eight of the ten aircraft carriers."

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[T]he report found commonalities among victims, and where they are assigned by the military, that continue today. For example, the factors that put victims at high risk of sexual assault – youth, not being married, and having lower rank – correspond to their assignment to large training bases and ships. Those assignments and living conditions aboard ships, for example, have not changed greatly since 2014.

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The military has made progress in fighting sexual assault, according to the Pentagon. Sexual-assault rates for active-duty men and women in 2016 decreased significantly from rates last measured in 2014, according to Air Force Maj. Carla Gleason, a Pentagon spokeswoman. They are at the lowest levels since 2006.

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The Army's highest-risk posts for women included Ft. Huachuca in Arizona, Osan in South Korea and Ft. Drum in New York, where the risk of being assaulted was about 5 percent to 10 percent.

For the Marine Corps, women faced the highest risk at Yuma Air Station in Arizona, 29 Palms Combat Center in California and Beaufort Air Station in South Carolina. The risk at those bases was between 10 percent and 15 percent.

  USA Today

From the Pentagon's November 2017 report:

I don't know how this compares to the general population (and I suspect it's much higher in civilian life), but it's abominable.

The Greatest Military in the World

[I]ncidents involving sexual assault in which the children of service members are victims occur hundreds of times each year, data the Defense Department provided exclusively to The Associated Press show. The abuse is committed most often by male enlisted troops, according to the data, followed by family members.

The figures offer greater insight into the sexual abuse of children committed by service members, a problem of uncertain scale due to a lack of transparency into the military's legal proceedings.

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An AP investigation published in November found more inmates are in military prisons for child sex crimes than for any other offense.

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There were at least 1,584 substantiated cases of military dependents being sexually abused between fiscal years 2010 and 2014, according to the data. Enlisted service members sexually abused children in 840 cases. Family members of the victims accounted for the second largest category with 332 cases.

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Most of the enlisted offenders were males whose ranks ranged between E-4 and E-6 [being the largest numbers of personnel with children]. In the Marine Corps and Army, for example, those troops are corporals, sergeants and staff sergeants. Officers were involved in 49 of the cases. The victims were overwhelmingly female.

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The figures also account only for cases involving military dependents, which are the only child victims the department tracks.

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Child sex-assault cases are not included in the Defense Department's annual report to Congress on sexual assaults, which focuses primarily on adult-on-adult incidents.

  AP

The Greatest Military in the World

New details of the scandal involving the USS Wyoming crew, who spied on their female shipmates undressing, have emerged through The Navy Times' FoI. The servicemen appear to have taped every female officer each time she went to shower for almost a year.

Their case is being treated now as a crime ring, with each individual allocated his own role – filming, being on the lookout, and so on.

  RT

With the recent announcement that the military will begin allowing females in combat roles, we can only hope the men in combat with them can keep their minds on their missions.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

"Adultry" - So That's What the Army Is Calling Rape These Days

Brigadier General Jeffrey Sinclair, 51, was initially charged with forcible sodomy and other counts of sexual assault based on allegations from a female US Army captain who served under him in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sinclair, who allegedly threatened the lives of the young woman and her family, was facing a sentence that could have put him behind bars for the rest of his life.

Yet last weekend, Sinclair’s lawyer announced that the former rising star in the Army would plead guilty to adultery – a crime in the US military – and mistreating his accuser. The punishment that came down on Thursday reflected that change, absolving Sinclair of any prison time and instead sentencing him to a $20,000 fine and an official reprimand.

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After the general’s 20-year sentence was reduced to a plea deal worth a maximum of 18 months in prison earlier this week, the judge announced that jail time would not be necessary. He did not explain his decision-making process and prosecutors would not speak to reporters.

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Sinclair previously pleaded guilty to possessing pornography on his computer while serving in Afghanistan, interfering with an investigation by deleting explicit pictures from his computer, and pressuring other junior officers to send him nude images of themselves.

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He said later that he “maltreated” the Army captain and that she seemed to him to be “emotionally invested in a way I was not.”

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Sinclair, who could still face a reduction in rank and a lowered pension, announced his retirement immediately after the sentence was announced.

“This system worked. I’ve always been proud of my Army,” he said, as quoted by Jeffrey Collins of the Associated Press. “All I want to do now is go north and hug my kids and wife.”

  RT

Oh, indeed the “system” worked. It always does.

I hope his wife takes the kids and leaves him.

The Stupid Never Stops

David Frum, one of the silver tongues who cajoled this nation to war during the George W. Bush Administration believes that officially allowing women in combat roles, as outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced he would yesterday, would be detrimental to the military because they will get raped by Iranians, Pakistanis and Afghanis.

  Raw Story

I guess I don't have to tell you...

Every year in the U.S. military, an estimated 16,150 women soldiers are sexually assaulted by their colleagues.

Fire Liz Trotta

Fox News commentator Liz Trotta. And shun her as well.

“Defense Secretary Leon Panetta commented on a new Pentagon report on sexual abuse in the military,” Trotta added. “I think they have actually discovered there is a difference between men and women. And the sexual abuse report says that there has been, since 2006, a 64% increase in violent sexual assaults. Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it’s strictly been a question of pressure from the feminists.”

She then noted that the budget of the Defense Department’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office increased from $5 million in 2005 to more than $23 million in 2010.

“So, you have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much,” Trotta remarked.

  Raw Story

Raped “too much.”

What did they expect? What did they expect?!

Despicable woman.