So rather than revamping the entire military Justice System, which i believe carries massive risk, our proposal improves and it updates the Current System. Unfortunately, the gillibrand proposal, i believe, takes radical steps, and it undermines a commanders responsibility for his or her troops. Under that proposal, almost all crimes, from forgery to sexual violence, theyre removed from a commanders purview. It doesnt bring that focus to the challenge were facing. Our proposal does. The other proposal detaches the commander from his or her unit, and it removes all responsibility. I do not want to remove the responsibility from a commander. We trust these people to watch our best and our brightest, our children and our grandchildren, as they go into battle. We need to trust them in this as well. Senator mccaskill brings a wealth of experience to bear on this topic from her days as a prosecutor. And i believe we should all be listening to her. She mentioned in november that the other pro
Per year. Thats every year for to implement her bill in the army, navy, air force and marines. Not only is her bill not executable in a cost neutral basis, it is not possible to grow the total inventory of nearly 600 judge advocate officers and legal assistants required by the bill within the 180 days of enactment. The decision we make today will have significant consequence on the future of our miltle militaries. The bill were debating this week threatens to tear apart what i believe is the fabric of our armed forces, the chain of command. I cant find people i can confide in and talk to personally who have been in the military who dont agree with this. I was in the uniform code of military justice when i was in the United States army, not at the level that the that the some of the senators who have been more recently, senator graham, for example, and at a higher level. I was an enlisted man but i was a reporter and a lot of times the reporters, the enlisted personnel really know more
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