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New defense bill is considering an amendment that would take the divisio decision to convict Sexual Assaults out of the military command. First, this background. Reporter the senate is determined to end the plague of Sexual Assault within the military. There is no disagreement that as many as 26,000 incidents last year according to a blind survey of military personnel conducted by the pentagon. Its an unacceptbly high number, but different proposed solutions now divide democrats. New yorks kirsten gillibrand. If you do not create a system outside of the chain of command your hope to report so we can weigh the evidence to see whether we can go to trial , its not there. The hope isnt there. The confidence in an objective review of someone who doesnt know the perpetrator, doesnt know the victim doesnt exist. Reporter gillibrand seeks to remove the chain of command. You cant train your way out of this problem. There are 23,000 command climates that were not strong enough, that didnt insure
Taking the fuel out of a potential market rally. The dow falling 66 points. Those minutes showing that if the economy improved the stimulus should be pulled back soon. President obama laid a wreath at pratt john fpresident john f. Ks grave in Arlington Cemetery in virginia. Those are the headlines. Sexual assault in the military is a longstanding and growing problem, and the senate is now debating whether to take the issue out of the chain of command. Im ray suarez, and this is the inside story. Its a terrible problem in search of a better solution for victims. The number of reported sex yum assaults in the military jumped 50 in the last year. And the pentagon estimates the real number is much, much higher. The president has ordered the military to solve the problem, but its not that easy. Now the senate as it debates the new defense bill is considering an amendment that would take the divisiodecision to convict sexul assaults out of the military command. First, this background. Report
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