Pentagon: Service academies' culture, traditions fuel surge in sexual assaults, harassment

Responding to a "disturbing and unacceptable" recent rise in reported sexual attacks and sexual harassment at the nation's leading service academies, a new Pentagon report Thursday called for stronger leadership, better training and changes to such traditional practices such as the hazing of incoming cadets and plebes.

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