12 . i think it s not about war, it s about an act of crime. i don t think that you can train adults to have morals and values in that way. if they don t have them in place. i think you can prosecute people who have an atmosphere where rape and assault is okay. in the military, you can prosecute them and make sure that they are put out of the military and absolutely put them on a registry that can be tracked. but to say it has to do with war hardened, we ve had wars with there are people who serve honorably who don t rape. so i don t necessarily believe that s the only problem. and i don t believe training is going to be the only thing that happens to correct the issue. it certainly has the attention of the president.
week about rape on college campuses. and how there is just this complacency around it. and some people think that it is greek life that is responsible or safety precautions or complain the university not taking it seriously enough. i know you couldn t pinpoint one reason why this happens if there were one reason we would fix that one reason. if you could locate one sort of main influence, why rape in the military happens, what would that be? well, there are some parallels unfortunately with the civilian system which is that victim blaming is absolutely part and parcel of military culture. victim blaming is embedded in d.o.d. messaging. the messaging that come out of the department of defense. what i said to the senate last month was i would love for the department of defense to come out with a post per simply says, don t rape. period. end of story. we don t see any kind of messages like that. the military went through a similar crisis with drinking while driving.
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the convicted rapist was, quote, a doting father and husband. yes, that really happened. victims rights advocates argue the move isn t nearly enough to combat the problem. according to the d.o.d. where there were an estimated 19,000 sexual assaults in 2010 and only 13% were reported. joining us in the guest spot now, the executive director and co-founder of service women s action network. she is a former marine captain and has testified before congress and advised the white house on the challenges faced by women in the military. thanks so much for joining us. thank you for having me. so hagel s move here is designed to address one aspect of the problem of rape in the military. this conversation has been really parked by a documentary which got a lot of attention called the invisible war. i wanted to play a short clip from that. you see a guy get five years for drugs and two weeks for rape. they let this man get away with everything but murder.
violence, you have no access to civil remedies. you have no access to sue your employer. in a civilian world where these crimes and workplace harassment happens every day to women and men in the civilian world, they have access to hold their employer liable for negligence. service members have no shot at that. the legal doctrine which is binding service members right now, it goes back 60 years. it is completely obsolete. even justice scalia has remarked that it has no place anymore in the law. and yet the courts and congress continue to defer to the military and say, oh, no, we ll leave it up to you to figure it out. there is no deterrent within the military unless you have civil remedies for service members. and you mentioned earlier, the front end which is when a victim reports the assault. i am actually interested in the front end before that front end which is preventing the rape itself of and i was earlier this