The review calls for additional senior officers to work with students and provide expanded training.
U.S. military academies must improve their leadership, stop toxic practices such as hazing and shift behavior training into the classrooms, according to a Pentagon study aimed at addressing an alarming spike in sexual assaults and misconduct.
The study comes on the heels of a report this year that showed a sharp spike in reported sexual assaults at the academies during the 2021-22 school year. It said that 1 in 5 female students said in an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact. These figures were the highest since the Defense Department began collecting that data many years ago.
Elizabeth Foster, executive director of the Pentagon's Force Resiliency Office, told reporters Thursday that the study will set up ways to measure whether the changes are working. But she cautioned that"not only are they going to take time to implement, but cultural change does take time." "What was striking was that the message was, this is OK here and this is how we treat each other," Tharp said."Unfortunately, that didn't stop once they left their freshman year."
Another problem, officials said, is the ever-expanding influence of social media, where bullying and harassment can go on unchecked. The report pointed to Jodel, an anonymous social media app that focuses on a specific location and is in wide use by academy students.
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