Maybe if she gave a speech encouraging female soldiers to use deadly force on their assailants she’d get more of a response.  I KNOW those women are trained to kill and I honestly hope they do.

Let’s keep in mind that “sexual assault” includes rape, sexual assault (unwanted contact), and sexual harassment. While it is a problem and should be corrected it is misleading to lump all three categories into one and call it rape. In fact, the 19,000 sexual assaults is an estimate, and how it was derived is never mentioned.

The military needs a better system for reporting incidents and a dedicated program to investigate them fairly. Further, each incident should be accurately classified so as not to confuse a sexually offensive remark with the crime of rape. They are distinctly different problems and should be addressed appropriately.

* While sexual assaults are notoriously under-reported, this problem is exacerbated in military settings. The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that only 13.5% of survivors report the assault, and that in 2010 alone, over 19,000 sexual assaults occurred in the military.
* 3,158 military sexual assaults were reported in fiscal year 2010, a decrease of 2% from fiscal year 2009.* http://servicewomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/R-SASH-Quick-Facts.pdf

** In Congressional testimony in the summer of 2008, Lt. Gen. Rochelle, the army chief of personnel, reported the little known statistic that 12 percent (approximately 260) of the 2,200 reported rapes in the military in 2007 were reported by military male victims.
** The department of defence reported that in fiscal year 2009, there were 3,230 reports of sexual assault, an increase of 11 percent over the prior year.
** http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/12/2010122182546344551.html

So much for Honor serving in the military. You risk your lives to protect our liberty, but you think nothing of shitting on each other. How can you idly correct figures and demand the proper classification of sexual assaults like that is some kind of solution? Protect your Honor by starting to protect each other.

If this were truly a functioning Congress, its members would immediately demand the top brass to the floor and explain why they fell to protect a soldier from the abuse of a superior!

Upon giving their testimony, order the Secretary of Defense to strip them of all of their military powers. Every member in this soldier’s chain of command, should receive a Dishonorable Discharge and shall be stripped from ever having to work for the government at any capacity, whatsoever!

Our government does not need scumbags such as these, leading or serving our men and women who choose to serve.