In the film “The Invisible War” Which is a huge problem in all the branches of the military which is affecting our members. From the article that inspired the documentary “Many female soldiers say they are sexually assaulted by their male comrades and can't trust the military to protect them. 'The knife wasn't for the Iraqis,' says one woman. 'It was for the guys on my side.' (Benedict). In the course of this essay, it’s going to cover possible solutions for this issue like having a real zero-tolerance policy, Reviewing the effectiveness of programs like the army sharp program, and the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response SARP. A more in-depth Dual trial and investigation process. Also a look at power abuse checks and balances. And finally an overhaul of cases being taken care of through the company. Will this help stop sexual harassment and sexual assault in the united states military so young men and women could enlist with confidence in today’s military without fear?
The Zero Tolerance policy in place right now isn’t very “zero tolerance”,” officials received more than 3,000 reports of sexual assault and less than 200 military members were convicted”(Brown). You’re watching that segment watching the numbers just getting filtered down and down till your left with two hundred. The policy in place right now is super effective all together there needs to be a huge stance on zero tolerance ground. If there was a huge stance like if you do this your out of the military and could serve possible jail time and it wasn’t a joke like it is now you would see a huge drop in the sheer amount of cases overall. In the documentary, you see the department of defense always saying its zero-tolerance but if that was the case there would have been way more then just 200 that had to deal with the consequences it's a joke when they say that over and over saying that they’re making changes but nothing is happening to that doesn’t look like change does it look like it to you. “Sexual assault in the American military surged in the last two years, driven almost entirely by a 50 percent increase in assaults on women in uniform, according to a survey released on Thursday by the Defense Department.”(Philipps). That was a quote from an article from the New York Times in May of this year I think this shows that they haven’t done anything to stop these problems.
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The military has many programs across the board the army has the Sharp( Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention) program. The Navy/Marines have the SAPR (Sexual Assault Prevention and Response) program which are the same thing but for the other branch, they are there for awareness and taking care of the vitamins for reports. In the army training environments nowadays they usually have one or two drill sergeants “trained” for dealing with these reports at my basic training they had one drill sergeant for the whole battalion which was five companies that each have four platoons of up to sixty-five trainee’s. So you have almost one thousand five hundred being taken care of by one man, it was an all-male basic but still, it happened. The programs are meant to take care of the victims than to prevent them say it's meant to prevent but all the posters and the one time a year brief isn’t something that's going to prevent those things. There need to be real relocations to scare someone away from doing these things, that's the only way to make a person not do something bad you would touch a flame if it didn’t hurt you so they should make it hurt when they commit this crime. There was a part “In the film, former SAPRO Director Dr. Kaye Whitley is asked what methods of risk reduction she advocates to prevent sexual assault in the military, she responds that they tell women to have a buddy. The filmmakers ask if she knew of any other methods and she says, no. Under Whitley, SAPRO ran awareness campaign posters which read, 'Don't risk it . . . wait until she's sober.'(Brown). The mission behind the sharp program is (Intervene, Act, and Motivate) they need to do a better part on the intervening and the acting part so that they can keep more of the new soldiers.
A problem that should up with a lot of the cases in the documentary “The Invisible War” was that a lot of the cases that were reported would be taken care of before there could be an investigation. There are a lot of these cases shouldn’t have been a thing in the first place they should have been conducted as any sexual assault case during the film they said this is caused by having people who are not trained in this matter deal with it. The training to be the “Sharp” rep is a seven-week course. You are leaving all these people that are having these terrible things happen to them to a person who took one 7 week class to help them in such a dire time of need. A person who took one class shouldn’t be dealing with people who got raped they wouldn’t be nearly qualified in the least bit. On the civilian to be a Rape Crisis Counselor some places require a master’s degree so why are we letting our soldiers and sailors be helped by a person with not even half of a quarter of a year of education which brings us to the next topic.
This cases of sexual assault and sexual harassment shouldn’t be handled by a company commander or even the military police every case they brought up was handled by the military police or the commanders there's something is wrong and it's not zero tolerance like they say there wouldn’t be nearly as many cases then something has to change. First, commanders shouldn’t have absolute power as they have now they have control of everything that goes on in the company which is fine for training schedules, paperwork, etc. Legal matters shouldn’t be affected by someone who has no degree in the subject. In war, it makes sense to have them control the unit but it doesn’t make sense for them to say if they should continue the investigation. There was a quote from Business Insider “Twenty-five percent of women didn't report an incident because their commander was their rapist”(Brown) in the cases of those women how is it far to them if they aren’t a high rank they wouldn’t be taking serious especially if the commander was a major or higher the private wouldn’t be taken seriously. Commanders should only have control over the schedules and day to day paperwork stuff. There should be a separate department that handles the cases that a third party neutral that has trained professionals to help the victim and pursue the perpetrator in a thorough investigation.
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