Statement on McKeon’s Visit to Lackland Air Force Base
Statement from Nancy Parrish, President of Protect Our Defenders, on Rep. Buck McKeon’s Visit to Lackland Air Force Base: It’s...
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A Phone Call To Protect Our Lackland Trainees
Today, Rep. Buck McKeon, the House Armed Services Committee Chairman, returned to Congress from his summer recess. More than 15,000...
McKeon Visits Lackland Air Force Base to Discuss Basic Training Sex Scandal
Jeremy Herb reports for The Hill on Protect Our Defenders: Activists have criticized McKeon for not doing enough to address...
House Chairman Visits Lackland AFB Reeling From Scandal
The Associated Press reports in USA Today: Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon spent three hours at the base, where he met...
Rape and the Ethics of Adultery, or How the Military Hides its Rape Problem
Matt Collins reports for Tom Ricks’s Foreign Policy: Still, there is more that could be done to reform the military’s...
Col. Axelbank Exits Lackland for the Pentagon
Sig Christenson reports for the San Antonio Express-News on Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish: “The abuse at Lackland and...
Trainer’s Trial is Put Off; No Explanation
Sig Christenson reports for the San Antonio Express-News: A basic-training instructor’s trial on charges of having sex with a young...
Editorial: Military Needs a Battle Plan to Stop Sexual Assaults
The New York Daily News Editorial Board writes about reform needed to stop military sexual assaults and mentions Protect Our...
Video: Veterans Bike Across 12 States Including Kansas City
KSHB Action News reports on Colleen Bushnell’s Long Road Home bike ride, supported by Protect Our Defenders:: The Long Road...
Majority of Sexual Assaults and Rapes Committed in Military in 2011 Were Against Men
Heidi Evans of the NY Daily News reports on Protect Our Defenders Board Members Advocacy Board member Geri Lynn Matthews...
San Antonio Express Editorial: Abuses Call for Hearings in Congress
The San Antonio News-Express Editorial Board writes: The abuse of military authority to seek or force sexual favors from trainees...
Navy Vet: Policies on Sexual Assaults Must Improve
Craig Currier of The Antelope Valley Press covers Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Board Member, Jenny McClendon’s story and the fight...
Why Pentagon’s Progress Against Sexual Assault Is So Slow
Anna Mulrine reports for the Christian Science Monitor : Today, failure to prosecute some prominent sexual-assault cases is a key...
Cross-Country Bike Ride Fights Trauma of War
Nancy Gaarder reports for the Omaha World-Herald on Colleen Bushnell’s Long Road Home bike ride, supported by Protect Our Defenders:...
Rep. Jackie Speier: Assaults in Armed Forces Must Stop Immediately
Protect Our Defenders Honorary Chair Rep. Jackie Speier writes for the New York Daily News: Women, and men, join the...
San Antonio Express News: Air Force Finds More Trainers, Victims in Sex Scandal
Sig Christenson and Karisa King report in the San Antonio Express News reports an increase in the number of victims...
Huffington Post: Lackland Sexual Abuse Survivor Bikes Cross-Country to Deliver Petitions to Rep. Buck McKeon
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish writes in the Huffington Post: We hope Congress acts before Colleen arrives in our...
The Latest on Lackland
News has been breaking almost daily this summer about the Lackland Air Force Base sexual abuse scandal, and to help...
Editorial: Hearings Needed in Lackland Scandal
Protect Our Defenders President Nancy Parrish writes in an op-ed for the San Antonio Express News: What happened during those...
Rape Victims Advocate on Akin: It Was a Huge Kick to the Gut
Diana Zoga reports for KMOV St Louis News about Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Board member Terri Odom: Odom was raped...