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TexasTowelie

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Wed Feb 7, 2018, 06:08 PM Feb 2018

Pentagon: Air Force Academy out of compliance on sexual assault

Mismanagement of the Air Force Academy's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office has put the school out of compliance with Defense Department policies, a Pentagon report released Wednesday said.

The problems, revealed late last year in a 560-page report released to The Gazette under the Freedom of Information Act, included infighting, mishandled cases, questionable record keeping and alleged office romances.

"A commander-directed investigation disclosed significant evidence of mismanagement and unprofessionalism that negatively impacted victim advocacy and assistance rendered to a number of cadets," the Pentagon said in its latest report, which compares sexual assault programs across the military's three major service academies.

The academy was the only program found to be operating outside Defense Department guidelines, but for the first time in a decade saw its sexual assault numbers fall below its peers.

Read more: http://gazette.com/pentagon-air-force-academy-out-of-compliance-on-sexual-assault/article/1620560

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Air Force and its academy notorious for its take over by Evangelicals-Fundamentalists bobbieinok Feb 2018 #1

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1. Air Force and its academy notorious for its take over by Evangelicals-Fundamentalists
Wed Feb 7, 2018, 06:54 PM
Feb 2018

See work done by Mikey Weinstein.

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