Stars and Stripes: 151 Navy personnel disqualified from positions of trust
Stars and Stripes reports:
The Navy disqualified 151 sailors and civilians last year from positions of trust following a service-led review that focused on sexual assault prevention, a Navy spokesman told Stars and Stripes.
In May 2013, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel directed the services to conduct a review of their recruiters, sexual assault response coordinators and victims’ advocates to make sure they were suitable for those positions. The directive came in the wake of several high-profile sexual assault scandals that highlighted the larger problem of sexual assault plaguing the military.
About 5,400 incidents of sexual assault or unwanted sexual contact were reported within the U.S. military last fiscal year, the Pentagon disclosed last month, a 60 percent increase from 2012. Only a fraction of sexual assault incidents are actually reported, officials say.
