Panel recommends significant change in military sexual assault proceedings

Listen, Casey, if it results in fewer soldiers being sexually harassed, raped, and murdered, it's a good change. Are you seriously suggesting that the current system is fine and we should not change it?

SGT Michael Van Geertruy ish.
These fall within UCMJ. Either Commanders are capable of handling UCMJ, or they are not.
If Commanders are capable of properly handling murder, they are capable of handling sexual assault.

If they are NOT capable or doing their damned job, FIRE THEM.

The system as it exists would work if Commanders would hold their subordinates accountable.

And if they are unable or unwilling to do so - if the system is THAT broken, the solution is to turn it over to existing civilian authorities, not to create more bureaucrats and bigger government.

SFC Casey O'Mally - There's the rub. You trust the chain of command to eventually make the right decisions. The problem is this has not been proven to be true, in fact the opposite has. If a stellar officer had 2 sexual assaults in their command (that they did not participate in), how would that compare with another officer who had no sexual assaults? Expediency in resolving these matters is looked upon better than vigorously investigating the allegations and prosecuting them. Because of this, we need a better system. The proposed system is an improvement, and we need to let it run its course to determine if it helps more than it hurts.
You can call me a liberal, but letting rapists get away with it is not the answer.