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CSM Geologist
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This is very sad. Of the 31K (unkown # of wrongful discharges) how many have already completed suicide from being discarded from the Military and from the lack of recovery care. Even if they have not completed suicide, some may just be staying afloat and not really living to their full potential. I am relieved Human Rights Watch is bringing awareness for them.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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CSM (Join to see) those are staggering numbers and due diligence with respects to the victims. I am glad to hear that Human Rights Watch is advocating this topic which is very important! Well said and articulately conveyed.
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LTC Stephen F.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL I suspect that serious reform for sexual assault policy will need to wait until the new POTUS and new Congress next January.
My oldest son was convicted of sexual assault after the Article 32 investigation cleared him of sexual assault in 2011. The climate then was that sexual assault was not treated seriously by the military so the Fort Benning Commander set aside the Article 32 hearing results and convened a General Court Martial he was convicted and sentenced to 35 years.
God has been in control throughout this process as He always is. My son who was assigned to 3rd BN 75th Rangers for a few years has accepted his sentence and has earned to BA degrees while incarcerated at the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth.
He met his wife online in a rough sex chat room on his last deployment. They were married an he was charge with rape a few weeks later. The military paid her for three year for her trouble. later we learned she had done something similar to a US Marine a few years prior. She obviously learned how to game the system. My son was recently transferred from the Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth to a medium security facility in WV a few hours from where we live. I hope to be able to visit him this summer.
I hope for an appropriate balance between convicting criminals and protecting those who need protection.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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LTC Stephen F. you are a very courageous man, thank you for your testimony. To God Be The Glory! Well said and articulately conveyed.
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CSM Charles Hayden
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I would hope victims to have recourse, a lot of it! SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
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CSM Charles Hayden I am in full agreement.
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