So I don’t want just more speeches or awareness programs or training but, ultimately, folks look the other way. His voice rising, Obama said: “I have no tolerance for this … I expect consequences. And we have to do everything we can to root this out.” “And they may consider themselves patriots, but when you engage in this kind of behavior that’s not patriotic - it’s a crime.
“If it’s happening inside our military, then whoever carries it out is betraying the uniform that they’re wearing,” he said.
The president, when asked about the report during a press conference with the visiting South Korean president, seized the topic forcefully. The victims amount to 6.1 percent of all active-duty women and 1.2 percent of the men in the 2.2 million member American military. That represents an alarming average of more than 70 episodes a day, and a 36 percent increase since 2010, when the last survey was performed. The tempest was stirred primarily by the Defense Department’s disclosure that 26,000 military personnel said in a recent confidential survey that they had been the victims of unwanted sexual contact in 2012, a term used to describe incidents ranging from sexually-related touching to rape. military struck the Pentagon with intense fury on May 7, with public expressions of regret by top military leaders about a rising number of reported assaults and blunt, quick condemnation from members of Congress and President Obama. Scott Applewhite/AP)Ī storm of outrage over sexual assaults within the U.S. Welsh III, about how they are dealing with the controversy over sexual assaults and how the military justice system handles it, during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday. Donley, and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., questions top officials of the Air Force, Secretary of the Air Force Michael B.
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