Graham Questions Military Leaders about Sexual Assaults in the Military

senator Gramm and Mister chairman I think Sir McCaskill made a point that I thought was a very intriguing %HESITATION

when people come forward and talk about %HESITATION being assaulted her or bad working environment are completely two different things

conduct versus a crime can you tell me that in the Coast Guard I got no certainly but %HESITATION

stats or RF figures that I can give you and we can certainly do that for the record but %HESITATION just intuitively

and anecdotally %HESITATION whenever we have somebody who is %HESITATION removed for command climate issues I

inevitably it goes much deeper and we find other I would guess I would just say command climate doesn't do justice to what we're talking about command

climate is a hostile workplace to me I hate crime is a crime so

maybe how do you decide how do we capture the difference between the sexual perpetrators somehow got through the gates straining

at the military it's been able to survive and so flourish in the military doing performing their duties but yet have this as

its disposition that will destroy the military if not addressed how do we separate anybody

have any ideas make sure we understood the Germans well Sir I I agree was sent there were two separate we measure but are they be reporting you

know why what about the army right right now the required to be together well I think that we have to separate only we can see that as a really good place to start and

we on and we understand because I don't want everybody in the country to think that every allegation is %HESITATION

to be dealt with that I was not treated right but I think there's a big difference between the

two systems that she's describing and I don't believe there's any tolerance for anyone to to

allow someone is a sexual predator to get anything other than and just as hard to hit as as we can give them %HESITATION

so I would like to follow up on her question in the all report back to us how you create two tracking systems ok

now about lay people making %HESITATION prosecutorial decisions that is a bit odd that the average person I

elected sometimes appointed how would you justify this in the military to have such a different

system I would just say that I think what we do in the military is very unique for us to do things that are very different than any other profession and

and and the %HESITATION unit cohesion that is necessary to do the things that we are asked to do would you agree that the military commander has authority that it's

hard to find a counter to into something that is incorrect very few of us have the authority to order somebody in the battle that's

correct very few of us have the responsibility of commanding people %HESITATION where they don't really

sea there was a case where a guy had been up for like twenty hours he went to sleep for two hours in the ship ran aground in a court martial the

commander why would you do that well we entrust in the commanding officer of the ship %HESITATION all of the people aboard and