Do you believe Congress should remove the ability to handle any SHARP related issues from the military Chain of Command?

It is my personal belief that is the Army was serious about SHARP / Sexual Assault / sexual harassment prevention, like all the power point slides profess, it would remove the authority to investigate from the chain of command. As soon as there is a complaint / event send it immediately to civilian authority for investigation, judgement and punishment if waranted. This would do two things. 1) Remove the chain of command so no command influence or favoritism will be involved. Also the appearance of such. 2) ensure all parties, including the accused, have to get competent civilian representation, not just whatever officer is next on the "additional duty" roster. This would further protect the accuser and the accused. If the chain of command HAS to be involved, set up a board in Washington to receive the civilian authorities ruling, and then accept or alter the recommendations of that ruling. All with total transparency. This would ALSO remove the gross disparity of "punishment" in light of rank. Make each accused stand as a man accused of a crime. Not a Staff Sergeant or a General. All too often we see the lower ranks burned to the ground for this, but the Generals are allowed to retire with honors. I say, if the Military is serious about it, take themselves out of the process. Just my opinion

Yes. My reason: because victims aren't out there saying how great their chain of command handled their case. They're out there screaming loud and clear that their cases are grossly mishandled by their CoC.

I think Congress needs to let military leadership do its job and Congress needs to turn around and do their job which is to prevent the executive branch of government from getting out of control and abusing power.