Hold Military Rapists Accountable, Something that retired Colonel Paul Cook doesn't even have on his radar!!

Let's look at what being a retired Colonel in Congress does not think is very important--the rights of our women in uniform.
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Perpetrators are protected, promoted and permitted to continue their heinous actions while victims are isolated from all support, ostracized, shamed, humiliated and often denied the care they need.  In 2013, there were 5400 cases of military sexual assault reported, a 60% increase.
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Given that 95% of sexual assaults in our military are from repeat offenders and serial rapists and that commanders hear from the rapists the rape was "consensual sex," nothing typically gets done.
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Does Paul Cook side with rapists and the officers who cover for them? Why isn't Paul Cook not demanding policies to hunt down these criminals, those that support them, and cleaning up their act?
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Commanders too often tend to cover up crimes that would reflect on them as officers and on their corps, which Paul Cook as a Marine Officer had to have seen, so he is hardly unaware of the problems.
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18 different reports over the past two plus decades point to the problem in all the military services - a culture of abuse that is fostered by the leadership. It is clear that our military will not change unless forced to do so by we the people.
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To get a feel of the pervasiveness of the culture of abuse, watch the Invisible War Movie and get the full picture through the women's stories.
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Paul Cook needs to look at (or voted out of office if he does not) how our military handles reports of sexual assaults, how they train personnel to investigate, how investigations are done, how leaders are trained including the nonverbal communication, how the system applies accountability and justice, if at all, examine the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) in relation to these sexual assault cases and make necessary changes.
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Bob Conaway says if he is elected, "I will not be sympathetic or worst, like Paul Cook, silent on the abuse of our women in uniform. I challenge Paul Cook to explain why he has done nothing to protect women in uniform against such abuses and what he will floor legislatively to stop the Officer imposed silence and fear."
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