Posted on 05/08/2013 6:48:32 PM PDT by markomalley
United States Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ordered a mandatory inspection Tuesday of all international military offices and workplaces in a bid to rid them of any material that fosters a sexually aggressive or generally hostile work environment.
The examinations will mirror an Air Force search last year that forced troops to remove any inappropriate photos, calendars, periodicals, screen-savers or computer content from their desks and cubicles, according to the Military Times. The decision to scrub content that’s degrading to women comes after the officer in charge of the Air Force’s sexual assault program, Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, was charged with sexual battery for allegedly groping a woman in a parking lot.
Air Force lawyers asked to have the case transferred to the military justice system but were rebuffed by prosecutors who wanted to keep the case under their own jurisdiction in Arlington County, Virginia.
Every branch of the military will be subjected to the searches, which are expected to be completed by July 1. Hagel also released new figures from the Defense Department indicating an average of 70 troops every day endure some type of sexual harassment. Of the approximately 26,000 active-duty service members, one in every 50 experiences “unwanted sexual contact” each day.
“We need a cultural change where every service member is treated with dignity and respect,” Hagel said. “This department may be nearing a stage where the frequency of [sexual assault] and the perception that there is tolerance of it could very well undermine our ability to effectively carry out the mission and to recruit and retain the good people we need.”
The Pentagon’s estimate shows that the number of troops who are victimized has increased by 35 per cent since 2010, USA Today reported, from 19,300 to 26,000 (including both men and women). That evidence doesn’t account for the number of unreported – or ignored – instances. Of the estimated 26,000 assaults, less than 3,400 victims reported the incident.
US President Barack Obama, following Krusinski’s arrest, demanded that any military member found guilty of sexual assault be fired and prosecuted.
“I don’t want just more speeches or awareness programs or training, or ultimately folks look the other way,” Obama said. “We’re going to have to not just step up our game, we have to exponentially step up our game and go after this hard.”
Along with searching troops’ working quarters, Hagel said the military would work to reduce the stigma for victims of reporting sexual assault, hold offenders accountable, and enhance sexual abuse prevention programs.
But Congressional leaders were dumbfounded that these practices hadn’t already been entrenched in military culture. Senator Kristen Gillibrand (D-NY) admonished Air Force Secretary Michael Donley on Krusinski’s case during a conference with the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday.
“If the man in charge for the Air Force in preventing sexual assault is being alleged to have committed a sexual assault this weekend, obviously there’s a failing in training and understanding of what sexual assault is, and how corrosive and damaging it is to good order and discipline and how it is undermining the credibility of the greatest military force in the world,” she said.
They are forcing out all heterosexuals so they can have an army like Hitler’s Brownshirts. It is why they forced “Sodomy is a Right” and “Good” in to eliminate people with Christian Ethics (incapable of killing own citizens, like the Russians and the Chinese and Hitler.
Machiavelli stated-—it is essential to promote Virtue in the military. We have the promotion of Vice (by law) because immoral people like the homosexual Brownshirts were used to dehumanizing acts against themselves and numerous people. Zero is building up an occult/pagan/Satanic army. BTW, W. Shoebat on the Michael Savage show-—said that all Saudis prefer little boys. All homosexual cultures are brutal and pederasty is the norm.
Hitler’s Brownshirts: http://www.thepinkswastika.com/5294/index.html
Typical ethics of the Saudis (all women-hating societies)-—the Afghanis: Sodomy is allowed in the Koran. http://www.examiner.com/article/afghan-pedophilia-a-way-of-life-say-u-s-soldiers-and-journalists
Every thing these hard core Marxists are doing is for a purpose......this is to chase out the heterosexuals. All the homosexual rapes and attacks are shoved under the table and ignored. If the men don’t like to be sodomized—they will be kicked out......——like in the Catholic Church-—according to Fr. Oko’s report about the Homomafia.
I guess this is a little off topic but this thread reminded me of something.
During the late 50s and early 60s, every flight of stairs I saw at Eglin AFB had a sign next to them. It said “Is This Flight Necessary”?
I never could figure it out. Why would they discourage people from taking the stairs? It seems to me that it would be encouraged since it gave them a little exercise.
Maybe there was some other message but I still have no idea what.
Obama finally found something he’s going to come down hard on, eh?
Is it degrading to wish that Sec’y Hagel would be stripped and buried halfway with his butt poking up so he can be used as a bike rack?
The Pentagon is so fiscally strapped by Sequestration that it cannot make payroll. But, it has the time, resources, and money for this Witch Hunt?
I am sure the civilian employees taking a 20% paycut between June through September will completely understand that paying their grocery bill or mortgage must take a backseat to Witch Hunts searching for......."something" in every single DoD office, cubicle, barracks, flight line, ship, sub, aircraft, and computer.
What if it’s gay porn. Oh... I guess then it’s ok.
I guess that old fashioned nose art is out, along with our old Farrah Fawcett posters...
Those old WWII flyers certainly knew what a pretty girl looked like.
The army made them tone down the more risque ones as they were getting too close to erotica.
If there is any GLBT literature lying around, that is fostering sexual aggression and a hostile work environment.
Now Obama is calling for whoever is found with a Maxim magazine to be dishonorably discharged. Obama’s goons (probably whichever homosexual officers are looking to thank daddy for repealing DADT) will seek out whichever conservative officers are left and will find/plant whatever ‘evidence’ they want to find. They will definitely try to get rid of Coast Guard Rear Admiral William D. Lee, probably say offering someone a bible is sexual assault. And they are getting rid of a commander’s power to repeal a court martial. Obama is out to fundamentally reshape the military in his quest to destroy America; the military ought to coup before it is too late.
hostile environment = military service
I guess we are supposed to fight wars with lawyers now.
Isn’t military service a hostile environment by definition?
Very well put.
I agree with removing porn, soft or hard, but placing women working closely with, men including combat and in subs, and sanctioning homosexual conduct, is just asking for sin and trouble. But the liberal fantasy is that man’s sin nature does not exist.
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