Video: Closed-Door Meeting Irks Military Sex Assault Victims
Cox TV reports on Protect Our Defenders: Paula Coughlin-Puopolo: “What happened to us should never happen to another member of...
AF Trainer Given 30 Days Behind Bars, Loss of Rank
Karisa King reports for the San Antonio News-Express on Protect Our Defenders: The sentence drew swift criticism from advocates, who...
Reuters: Second Air Force Trainer Guilty in Sex Scandal
Reuters reports: Pressure is mounting from the public as well. Paula Coughlin-Puopolo, the former Navy helicopter pilot who exposed the...
Senator Ends Hold On Air Force Chief Nomination
Donna Cassata reports for the Associated Press on Rep. Jackie Speier: “They didn’t have answers as to whether they (the...
ABC News: Activists Demand Congress Hold Open Hearing on Air Force Sexual Assaults
Serena Marshall reports for ABC News on Protect Our Defenders: According to a press release from Protect Our Defenders, an...
Air Force Instructor Gets 30 Days in Sex Scandal
Rob Quinn reports for Newser on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish: The president of the Protect Our Defenders victims...
VIDEO: Military Rape Survivors Urge Accountability
Al Jazeera reports: Paula Coughlin-Puopolo: “The problem has got to be solved at a higher level than the Secretary of...
On Sexual Abuse and Impunity in the US Air Force
Rosalind Jordan reports for Al-Jazeera on Paula Coughlin-Puopolo: Coughlin-Puopolo worries that today’s young airmen are too optimistic, even naïve. So...
As Lackland Air Force Base Scandal Widens, Tailhook Whistleblower To Demand Hearing
Molly O’Toole reports for The Huffington Post on Protect Our Defenders: “It is time for our elected officials that have...
San Antonio News-Express: Trainer Gets a Mixed Verdict
Karisa King reports: In a mixed verdict late Wednesday, an Air Force jury convicted Tech. Sgt. Christopher Smith on two...
Press Release: Tailhook Whistleblower Delivers 10,000 Petitions To Rep. Buck McKeon Demanding a Lackland Hearing and Investigation About Air Force Sexual Abuse Scandal
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Today, the former Naval Aviator and military sexual assault survivor was joined by Protect Our...
Tailhook Whistleblower Wants Congressional Hearing on Lackland
Jessica Hlad from Stars and Stripes reports on Protect Our Defenders: Nancy Parrish, president of Protect Our Defenders, said that...
Advisory: Tailhook Whistleblower, Military Sexual Assault Survivors to Deliver Petitions to Congress Demanding Lackland Hearing Ahead of Closed-Door Briefing
Protect Our Defenders Media Advisory: On Thursday, Protect Our Defenders will hold an event in our nation’s capital ahead of...
San Antonio Current: Lackland AFB Alleged Sex Scandal Victims Climbs to 38
San Antonio Current’s Newsmonger reports on Protect Our Defenders: “Unfortunately, we’ve always suspected that this was just the tip of...
Advocates: MTI Cases Prove System Is Broken
Kristin Davis reports for Air Force Times Prime on Protect Our Defenders: “It’s being addressed in the Catholic church. It’s...
San Antonio News-Express: Critics Say Walker’s Sentence Too Short
Sig Christenson and Karisa King report in San Antonio News-Express on Rep. Jackie Speier and Protect Our Defenders: Rep. Jackie...
AF Chief Nominee Blocked Because of Lackland
Michael Hoffman in DoD Buzz reports: “What we have been doing is not working. It’s not for lack of effort,”...
Nation: House Committee Still Sidestepping Hearing on Air Force Sex Scandal
The Nation reports on Lackland and the Protect Our Defenders petition for a Congressional investigation: …the advocacy group Protect Our...
Bloomberg: Sexual Assaults Plague Military After Decades of Reform
David Lerman reports on Paula Puopolo, Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Board member Jennifer Norris and Honorary Chair Rep. Jackie Speier:...
San Antonio Express-News: Lackland Sex Scandal to be Subject of Briefing
The San Antonio Express-News reports on Protect Our Defenders: Protect Our Defenders, a human rights group that advocates for military...
Editorial: An Inadequate Sentence in Air Force Sex Assault Case
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Editorial Board writes: How can this continue? Is this Jerry Sandusky raping little boys and Joe...
Sen. Cornyn Blocks White House Nominee for Air Force Chief
Carlo Muñoz and Jeremy Herb for The Hill report: “My hold on General Welsh will remain until I feel the...
Houston Chronicle: Women Targeted in Lackland Sex Cases Rises to 38
Sig Christenson in the Houston Chronicle reports on Protect Our Defenders: “We’ve always known this is just the tip of...
Statement: Protect Our Defenders on Air Force Announcement of More Victims at Lackland
Protect Our Defenders Statement on Air Force Announcement of More Victims At Lackland: Our hearts and prayers go out to...
How Many More Military Rapes Before Rep. Buck McKeon Investigates Lackland?
Nancy Parrish, Protect Our Defenders President, writes in the Huffington Post: …According to media reports on June 29, Gen. Rice...
Sex Assaults Taint Military
Saba Hamedy for the Worcester Telegram reports on the STOP Act: Late last month, U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., wrote...
Long Road Back, Veterans Ride for Healing and Help
Bill Buley for the Coeur d’Alene Press reports on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Board member Colleen Bushnell: Colleen Bushnell…served in...
Lackland Rape Report Took Month to Reach Top
Sig Christenson and Karisa King report for the San Antonio Express-News on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish: Word that...
Statement: House Armed Services Committee Announces Closed-Door Briefing On Lackland Sexual Abuse Scandal
Protect Our Defenders Statement on the HASC Announcement of a Closed-Door Briefing on the Lackland Sexual Abuse Scandal: “This is...
The Nation: Lackland Instructor Convicted for Sex Crimes, As Pressure on Congress Mounts
Soumya Karlamangla in The Nation reports about Protect Our Defenders: On Tuesday, a human rights group launched a Twitter campaign...
Huffington Post: It’s Time for Congress to Act on Sexual Assaults in the Military
Nancy Parrish, Protect Our Defenders President, writes in the Huffington Post: Seventy-eight members of Congress, along with Paula, are asking...
Press Release: More than 7,000 Advocates Demand Rep. Buck McKeon Open Investigation About Lackland Sexual Abuse
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Today, Protect Our Defenders announced that more than 7,000 people have signed an online petition...
ABC News: Air Force “Not Doing Enough” to Stop Sex Abuse
Julie Percha for ABC News reports “What we have been doing is not working,” said Gen. Mark Welsh III, in...
San Francisco Chronicle: Can the Military Solve Its Rape Problem?
San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board reports: Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Hillsborough, asked today on the House floor, “Apparently we have a...
The Nation: Why Won’t Congress Investigate the Sex Abuse Scandal at Lackland Air Force Base?
Soumya Karlamangla reports in The Nation about Protect Our Defedenders: “When [the Department of Defense’s] leadership clearly fails to solve...
Huffington Post: Veteran Bikes to End Epidemic of Military Sexual Assault
Nancy Parrish, Protect Our Defenders President, writes in the Huffington Post: On Sunday, Ret. USAF Staff Sgt. Colleen Bushnell began...
NBC Nightly News: Air Force Sexual Abuse Trial Gets Underway
Brian Williams and Jim Miklaszewski report on sexual assault in the military, with Protect Our Defedenders Advocacy Board member Jen...
Current TV: Human Rights Organization on the US Investigating Military Rape Cases: ‘Nothing’s Changed in 20 Years’
The Young Turks on Current TV reports about Protect Our Defenders: Brian Purchia, the communications director for the human rights...
Ms. Magazine: Court-Martial Begins in Air Force Sex Abuse Case
The Feminist Newsire in Ms. Magazine reports about Protect Our Defenders: …California Congresswoman Jackie Speier…is joining forces with Paula Coughlin,...
Sexual Assault in the Military Remains Rampant in Spite of Recent Court Martial
Jackie Chazan in The Examiner reports on Protect Our Defenders Sexual assault against military service-members, despite pledges of zero-tolerance from...
Press Release: Lackland Survivor Bikes Across Country to Raise Awareness About Military Sexual Assault Epidemic and Money to Help Veterans
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Ret. Air Force SSGT Colleen Bushnell rides in honor of Army PFC LaVena Johnson, who...
The Daily Beast: Lackland Rape Scandal Shines Spotlight On Military Failure
Jesse Ellison in The Daily Beast reports about Protect Our Defenders: Coughlin, who now goes by her married name Puopolo,...
San Antonio Current: Lackland Fallout
The San Antonio Current reports about Protect Our Defenders: Coughlin-Puopolo’s petition over at the Protect our Defenders website calls on...
Petition Calls for Hearings on Lackland
Glenda Wolin reports in My San Antonio about Protect Our Defenders: Paula Coughlin-Puopolo, one of 87 servicewomen who were sexually...
Tailhook Whistle-Blower Calls for Lackland Sex Scandal Hearing
Kristen Davis reports in Military Times: A petition authored by Coughlin-Puopolo and posted on the Protect Our Defenders website got...
Stars and Stripes: Advocacy Group Demands Congressional Hearing on Lackland Sex Scandal
Leo Shane III reports in Stars and Stripes: Members of the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders are demanding Congressional hearings...
ABC: Tailhook Whistle-Blower Petitions for Hearings on Lackland
Arlette Saenz for ABC News reports about Protect Our Defenders: Paula Coughlin-Puopolo, the whistle-blower in Tailhook, one of the military’s...
Huffington Post: Tailhook Whistleblower Demands Congress Investigates Lackland Assaults
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish writes in the Huffington Post: The unfolding scandal at Lackland shows how little has...
Lackland’s Instructor on Rainbow Sex Crimes, Told By One Who Lived the Nightmare
Michael Barajas and John Lasker in the San Antonio Current report on Lackland and Protect Our Defenders: “The unfolding scandal...
Press Release: Tailhook Whistleblower Starts Petition Demanding Congress Investigates Lackland Sexual Assault Scandal
Protect Our Defenders Press Release: Washington DC – More than 20 years ago, 87 servicewomen were sexually assaulted while serving...