Republican Florida Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is going after the Pentagon over its opposition to her bill aimed at preventing sexual assault in the military.
over its opposition to her bill that would combat sexual assault in the military by requiring service members to take monthly self-defense classes., or the Stop Our Sexual Assault in the Military Act, comes as the annual number of sexual assaults in the military has increased. According to a 2021 Pentagon report, more than 4,000 assaults occurred in that year alone, an increase of 26% from the previous year.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., attends a news conference with house and senate Republicans on the"debt crisis," on the west terrace of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, May 17, 2023. Luna said the Pentagon's opposition would be"almost laughable" if the situation regarding sexual assault in the military were not"so grave.""The U.S. military continues to report extraordinarily high rates of sexual assault against active-duty service members, making clear this problem is not being addressed by whatever tactics the DOD currently swears by," she said.
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