Live Breaking News & Updates on Sexual Assault Prevention Effort

Sexual assault prevention effort. notably a woman, two-star major general margaret woodward. she will lead a newly elevated office and will essentially be replacing this man, lieutenant colonel jeff korzinski, arrested last month and charged with sexual battery. the problem is sexual assault in the military is at epidemic levels with a pentagon study showing 26,000 people in the armed forces were sexually assaulted last year. and it has spurred a kind of remarkable legislative movement to fundamentally reform the institutional structure of how justice is administered inside the armed forces. that movement hit a huge roadblock today. in this in the person of this man, senate armed services committee chairman carl levin, who introduced a measure to replace senator kirstin gillibrand s proposal to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command, chairman levin s measure prevailed. the battle lines that have been drawn on this issue and as we ....

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