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Pentagon announces plan to stem assaults

Associated Press

  April 17, 2012

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday announced new steps to combat sexual assaults in the military, with serious offenses subject to a court-martial review at the Army colonel or Navy captain level. Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a closed-door discussion with a bipartisan group of House Armed Services Committee members who have pushed for the Pentagon to take aggressive steps to stop sexual assaults and aid the victims.

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