The military’s non-existent sexual assault epidemic show’s no bounds

The best way to fix this is by even more SHARP posters. Lets put them everywhere they are not, like the broom closet and the back of the stairs. I thinks those are the only places left.

In one unit I was in, we had a serious rise in the reports of sexual assaults and some of them were against some very honorable officers. The Brigade commander decided nominate a bunch of investigating officers that included myself. (This was before the modern SHARP rules which basically compel commanders to hand all cases over to CID without an internal inquiry). We had 11 accusations and all 11 officers and NCOs were removed from their positions pending investigation, which of course is not good for your career. We ended up clearing 10 out of 11 including one major who was accused of assaulting a lieutenant on a date supposedly held on a Friday night where we found out he was on a four day pass with his family 200 miles away. This LT had issues with her boss to the point that her last OER was a career killer. Guess who her boss is? She ended up chaptering for many different reasons which included her going to a women's group and the press with an elaborate story of these horrible things her attacker did to her and how the Army did nothing. Now she is one of the women featured in a documentary that is often shown during SHARP training. I see it about once a year and want to throw something at the screen. I went into the experience on a mission to convict criminals who would sexually assault their subordinates and came out of it with total confusion as story out of story was filled with so many holes that there was a clear epidemic of trying to take superiors down using the most dishonorable way possible. One case of an NCO assaulting a private stood and was referred to CID. It was the only case that actually had conclusive evidence from the doctors as well as timelines that actually worked and eye witness statements from other Soldiers about this NCO's actions.

during the 90's many and Much of the cases were Little more than consensual that were later reported as assault and in many cases they problems were not reported till moths or years later ...
and with the exception of the Reporter ... there is no way to Really know what the truth is...