| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/07/16, 8:19 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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This morning Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are expected to announce support of Sen. Kristin Gillibrand’s crusade to bring in special military prosecutors for sexual-assault cases. It’s the right thing to do, and Cruz and Paul represent the next generation of Republican leadership when it comes to standing up to the Pentagon.
Military commanders have clearly failed to address sexual assault among the ranks. We’ve become familiar with stories about suffering in the military—veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress, an alarming rise in suicides among soldiers, heroes who’ve lost limbs in battle trying to make their lives whole again. But Gillibrand and Rep. Jackie Speier in the House have refocused attention on the horrific amount of sexual violence against women military personnel. There are over 200,000
active-duty women serving in the armed forces, or about 15 percent of the force. According to a 2011 study, one out of five of them are sexually assaulted during their careers. (The figures are grim, too, when it comes to men: in 2012, the Department of Defense reported around 53 percent of victims of sexual assault were men.)
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