May 21st, 2013 at 8:33 am » Comments (11)

Via a reader tip comes news of another front being opened in the military sexual abuse issue, this one being an attempt to have the VA give out disability claims for sexual abuse with no evidence: WASHINGTON – New government figures underscore the staggering long-term consequences of military sexual assaults: More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness linked to the abuse, and 4,000 sought disability benefits. The Department of Veterans Affairs’ accounting, released in response to inquiries from The Associated Press, shows a heavy financial
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May 20th, 2013 at 5:27 am » Comments (36)

The topic of military sexual assaults has been a hot topic in the media lately driven by the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) report that was mandated by Congress. Some of the information from the report has been demagogued by special interests and their political allies to advance their agendas against the military.  I will let others speculate on what their political agendas are, but I can clearly show that they are inaccurately portraying the results from the report.  You can read the full report here.  What is
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May 17th, 2013 at 10:32 pm » Comments (10)

It appears to me that Jennifer Hlad reporting for the Stars and Stripes is in full blown sensationalism mode regarding military sexual assaults considering this article she just published: The 101st Airborne Division’s officer for a sexual assault response program has been removed from his job after he was accused by his ex-wife of violating a protective order, according to Army officials. Lt. Col. Darin Haas was arrested Wednesday and immediately suspended from his job at Fort Campbell in the Equal Opportunity and Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention program, Army
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May 16th, 2013 at 3:30 pm » Comments (12)

SKorean women scoff at fired Park aide’s claim ‘cultural difference’ behind touching scandal ow.ly/l5Ahc — JamesTurnbull (@JamesTurnbull) May 16, 2013

May 15th, 2013 at 8:48 am » Comments (16)

The media is pretty much jumping on every military sexual assault case the can find now. This reminds me a lot of the media in Korea and Japan when they go through their cycles of highlighting every GI crime case no matter how minor: (CNN) – The Army announced Tuesday that a sergeant first class assigned to an assault prevention program at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for sexual assault. The soldier, who was not named in an Army statement, has been suspended from all duties. Specifically, the soldier
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May 13th, 2013 at 4:11 pm » Comments (2)

SKorea sexual assault fiasco: Attacks on the victim and an #SNL parody asiancorrespondent.com/107555/south-k…@yoonlee27 — Asian Correspondent (@AsCorrespondent) May 13, 2013

May 13th, 2013 at 8:30 am » Comments (21)

Here is the latest on the sexual assualt accusation by a Korean-American intern against President Park Guen-hye’s spokesman during her recent trip to the US. You all are going to love this guy’s excuse for the sexual assault: On whether he sexually harassed an intern in Washington, former presidential spokesman Yoon Chang-jung said at a press conference on Saturday, “I only tapped the woman’s waist.” But he reportedly confessed to touching the woman’s buttocks at a probe conducted by the presidential secretariat of civil affairs upon returning to Korea on
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May 10th, 2013 at 5:51 pm » Comments (8)

Japanese man arrested for sneaking into apartments & using scissors to cut off the clothing of sleeping women. Police investigating 6 cases — Mark Willacy (@markwillacy) May 10, 2013

May 10th, 2013 at 9:59 am » Comments (6)

This documentary is pretty much an “Inconvenient Truth” type of documentary filled with inaccuracies in order to push a political agenda just like Al Gore’s film was.  So I am not surprised that it is not being broadcast on AFN: The Pentagon says the American Forces Network won’t be showing an Oscar-nominated documentary about sexual assault in the military because the film fails to tell the whole story about efforts to fight a problem that is rapidly becoming a crisis for Defense Department. Some branches of the military have used
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May 10th, 2013 at 5:44 am » Comments (27)

Via various reader tips comes news that the President Park’s spokesman has been accused of committing a sexual assault during their trip to the US: President Park Geun-hye’s first official visit to the United States ended in one of the worst ways possible Friday with her spokesman being fired amid allegations that he had sexually assaulted a woman during the trip. The allegations sparked public outrage in South Korea and dealt a serious blow to Park just as she was beginning to regain public confidence through her handling of tensions
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