CBS/AP) NEW HAVEN, Conn. The investigative arm of Congress will look at how the military and its academies deal with sexual assaults after allegations that such cases were not properly handled, officials said.
The investigation follows the first court-martial in the 130-year history of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in Connecticut. Cadet Webster Smith was acquitted [...]
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Congress to Investigate Sexual Assaults in Military
Today in Coast Guard History – December 19th
1881-The keeper and six men of his crew were absent from Station No 4, Second District (Gurnet Point MA). They were for drilling and mailing official letters. The surfman who remained in charge at the station saw a schooner standing inside of Brown’s Island Shoals and knowing that unless warned, she [...]