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After airing a story about “Tracy,” a victim of military sexual trauma, we wanted to understand more about what military officials are doing to address sexual harassment and violence in the service. So, KALW’s Holly Kernan went to the Joint Force Headquarters of the California National Guard in Sacramento. In the aforementioned story, Tracy alleges that there is a culture of impunity with regard to sexual harassment and assault in the military. Kernan put that question to Bob May, the sexual assault response coordinator of the California National Guard.
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May 18, 2011
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ROBERT MAY: The culture that you’re referring to is quite dominant in the military partially because in the National Guard, we are pretty well-known as a family. We’ve known each other for 20, 30, sometimes 40 years. So when I do my training, I don’t talk so much about sexual assault and why people are afraid to report it, but I’ll talk about incest in the sense that we are guard families and that’s brothers and sisters we're talking about. Most of the sexual assault in the military, in the National Guard, occur between fellow soldiers and fellow airmen, who we know and we trust. So when that trust is violated its difficult to come forth and report because the parties are well known throughout the units.
Part of the pressure for not reporting is also our military pressure with protocol. We have rank. Most of the soldiers who I have known who have experienced this kind of trauma feel gui...
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