Report Says Pentagon Making No Progress In Perception of Retaliation for Reporting Sexual Assaults
The Stars & Stripes has a report stating that troops still feel like they are being retaliated against for reporting sexual assaults:
Too little progress has been made in countering perceptions of retaliation felt by those who report a sexual assault, and all the services must take measures to protect victims and others who report wrongdoing from reprisals, especially from peers, Pentagon officials concluded from an annual report on sexual assault in the military.
About two thirds of female troops who are sexually assaulted and report those attacks believe they experience retaliation afterward, according to the report.
“We’re not making enough progress on countering retaliation,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said at a news conference when the report was released Friday. “Too many servicemembers, the data shows, feel that when they report or try to stop these crimes, they’re being retaliated against in some way.”
The retaliation numbers, which are unchanged from 2012, come from a survey done late last year, and were first released in December. At the time, then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced new training and an additional study designed in part to prevent retaliation. [Stars & Stripes]
I think to really understand this issue you have to define what retaliation is? Is retaliation the command going after you with UCMJ and other measures or is it simply people in the unit not talking to you? With an issue like sexual assault people may be uncomfortable talking to someone who made a report and that could be interpreted by someone as being retaliation.
“countering perceptions of retaliation felt”
That there’s porcine scatalogy… at it’s SJW finest…
“I think to really understand this issue you have to define what retaliation is?”
I think you’re wrong ❗ A definition does NOT need to be defined. What, are servicethemselfmembers that dumb?
“With an issue like sexual assault people may be uncomfortable talking to someone who made a report and that could be interpreted by someone as being retaliation.”
What a bunch of servicethemselfmember babies,,.wha wha wha I can’t talk to her because she made a report against a male. USA male servicethemselfmembers can’t stand it when female genitals aren’t fed to them on a timely basis. 😈
Whistle blower laws make women who report sexual assault (even in absence of all evidence to support their claims) ipso facto untouchable. The problem is, most of these claims are fake and the vast majority of women who make them are abso-f*ing-lutely batshyte crazy. So you get a person who should have never been selected for the service anyway, and would have been canned for being crazy, if not for the sexual assault claim. It’s the exact opposite of what this article suggests. We have people at the base here who are paid by tax dollars to stay at home, they’re completely destructive to the work environment. But they can’t demote them, move them, or fire them because they have this special protection (for making a completely false claim). It isn’t only men who suffer here, women aren’t helped by this either..at least, the ones who actually work and have personal character (they too have to do the extra work).
The truth comes out. tbone’s jealous of folks who were able to enlist.