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Fort Riley quickly overhauls its sexual assault program to improve response

The Kansas City Star reports:

As much as Army Sgt. Aiden Hinkley believed in the concept of a one-stop shop of services for sexual assault victims in the military, he and his supervisor weren’t certain anybody would show up.

Sgt. Aiden Hinkley and about 30 other Army sexual assault response coordinators from around the globe completed three months of training in late March.

But on April 9, the day of the grand opening, someone did show up. After all, only two other U.S. Army installations in the world have tried it.

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