Tag: sexual assault
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Senators Warren, Sanders, Hirono Introduce Junior Reserve Officer Training Safety Act
Legislation Would Protect JROTC Recruits from Abuse, Forced Enrollment and Increase Oversight of Program One Pager (PDF) | Bill Text (PDF) June 15, 2023 / Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) / Senate.gov - Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chair of the Armed Services Subcommittee on Personnel, Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pension ...
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Military Acknowledges More Sexual Abuse in J.R.O.T.C. Programs
Lawmakers criticized oversight by the military, which reported dozens of additional cases of abuse of high school students by J.R.O.T.C. instructors. Nov. 16, 2022 / Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and ...
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Lawmakers to Investigate Sexual Abuse in Junior R.O.T.C. Programs
The House oversight committee wants the Pentagon to report on sexual misconduct in the high school programs and how it holds instructors accountable. Credit...Mary F. Calvert for The New York Times ...
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Sexual Abuse of Teens in the Military’s J.R.O.T.C. Program
Former students say military veterans who led J.R.O.T.C. classes in U.S. high schools fashioned themselves as mentors, then used their power to manipulate and abuse. July 9, 2022 / Mike Baker, ...
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Hansel and Gretel at the Military Recruiter
John LaForge - Military recruiters must feel like Hansel and Gretel’s “wicked witch,” fattening up the children to eat them. With sexual violence, endless wars of occupation, fatalities, brain ...
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Army Makes Case Against Enlisting
David Swanson - Remarkably, the U.S. Army War College has published a report (PDF) that makes an overwhelming case against enlisting in the U.S. Army. The report, called "Civilian Organizational ...
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