Air Force Times: Fear of retaliation: The culture that prevents airmen from speaking up
Protect Our Defenders is mentioned an Air Force Times investigative series on the culture within the United States military that keeps victims of rape and sexual assault from speaking up:
A Defense Department report released earlier this year showed that nearly half of women among an estimated 26,000 military victims of unwanted sexual contact who remained silent did not come forward because they feared retaliation.
Protect Our Defenders, an advocacy group for victims of military sexual trauma and a staunch proponent of reforms to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, said it is contacted daily by people who say they were retaliated against for making a sexual assault report.
