I recently read an article from the Austin American Statesman about the no more tolerance for military sexual assaults. I think that our government does not try to find enough of these assaults happening in our United States military today. Its ridiculous of the number of sexual assaults that are predicted to happen in the military each year. Our military is supposed to be role models and heros to the citizens of the United States. We should not be hearing about how the women or men who serve this country getting sexually assaulted. In the Austin American Statesman article it says, “A Pentagon survey estimated that only 13.5 percent of sexual assaults were reported in 2010. The actual number of sexual assaults that year may be closer to a shocking 19,000.” That is a ridiculous number of sexual assaults in on year. It says that there were only like 3,000 cases reported in 2011. Our government needs to start cracking down on these assaults now. I believe that the military as well needs to help crack down on it too because having stuff like that really makes them look bad. Women should not have to be scared to join one of our very powerful military units. They do not need to fear joining and having the chance of getting sexually assaulted. In the end our government needs to step up and help to start investigating all these assaults so maybe we can lower the amount. I know the women of this country will always be a minority in the army, but they sure as hell should not have to fear it. I know our government and military forces cannot stop all of the sexual assault, but they need to try harder and even lowering the number will mean something and could help some of the women of our armed forces out.
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