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August 6th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>When Jennifer Stevens saw a
poster in the women’s restroom at the Ohio Air Force base where she works as a
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>The poster was created by the
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base sexual response coordinator. “Preventing Sexual
Assault Is Everyone’s Duty!” it read. “Avoid Becoming a Victimdir=rtl>dir=rtl>.”
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>Stevens, a 10-year veteran of the
armed forces and a battalion commander in the Ohio National Guard, told Business
Insider that it reflects a key problem of the military’s sexual assault saga –
putting responsibility for being sexually assaulted on the victims.lang=FA>
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>With an estimated 26,000 sexual
assaults in the military last year and less than 3% of them resulting in
punishment for the perpetrators, it’s incredible that those in charge of
preventing and responding to sexual assault would think the answer would involve
telling prospective victims not to get sexually assaulted.lang=FA>
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>Stevens said it’s one of the
biggest problems in the military’s sexual assault prevention and response
strategy.
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face=Arial>“style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>I think this is part of the reason victims are
afraid to report incidents,” Stevens said. “If you’re a victim and you’ve done
one of the things on that list, you now feel like it’s your fault that you were
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>So she did something about it.
Stevens wrote a letter detailing what information victims of sexual assault
should know, and she posted it over the Air Force’s posterdir=rtl>dir=rtl>.
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>She also wrote an email to the
sexual assault response office at the base. In it, she implored the coordinators
to “promote culture change and support victims as opposed to tearing victims
down by plastering these types of posters all over the basedir=rtl>dir=rtl>.”
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face=Arial>“style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>Please take a moment to think about how you would
feel if you had been assaulted and you went to a [Sexual Assault Response
Coordinator] or Victims Advocate and one of the first questions they asked you
was what you were wearing or if you were alone or ifdir=rtl> you were drunk,” she wrote.lang=FA>
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>An effort by Business Insider to
reach out to the sexual assault response office at Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base was met with a carefully crafted statement from their public affairs office
that would “preclude the need for an interview”.lang=FA>
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face=Arial>“style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>We have implemented robust training for all Airmen
designed to both deter potential offenders as well as give Airmen the awareness
and tools they need to step in and stop assaults from taking place,” the
statement saiddir=rtl>.
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>What the statement didn’t
specifically say was the hours, methods, or repetition of the base’s training,
nor did it mention the content of said training (and certainly “robust” means
there’s lots of content to share).lang=FA>
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style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>Needless to say, the base didn’t
offer up so much as a PowerPoint presentationlang=FA>.
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face=Arial>“style=”mso-bidi-language: FA”>The training doesn’t help,” Stevens said. “In all
my years in the military, I’ve never heard anyone say anything about what’s
being done to stop the perpetrators. It is absolutely alarming.” Business
Insider
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