"unless we start, as a committee, requiring accountability in these various departments, nothing is going to happen."
"we, as a Congress, have got to take some blame for what is going on; and I think this committee is poised to do the right thing."
"The fact that the Air Force wasted $1 billion on the Expeditionary Combat Support System... we kept allowing it to continue to foment."
"I am deeply concerned about the allegations of misconduct and the impact on our service members."
"I am introducing a bill today that will basically say no longer can a consensual relationship between a training instructor and a trainee be used as a defense for the acts of the training instructor."
"I would like to encourage you to speak with your counterparts in the U.K. to see how their system works"
"This month the Air Force Academy reported that sexual abuse and assault reports have increased significantly to 65 during the last academic year compared to 41 the year prior."
"How can the USAF live up to its vision when the outward appearance of the Service is that it has recruited individuals that think it is acceptable to engage in behavior that runs counter of that visio..."
"An individual who is serving as a military training instructor who has a relationship like this with a trainee has no place in our Air Force."
"So we can reduce--even though this is a felony, even though this is a crime, if you have been an exemplary soldier, then we are going to reduce the sentence."
"But knowing that, don't we have a greater obligation in the military to make sure that these individuals that prey on victims, trainees in this case, over and over again, get taken out?"
"I certainly agree with you that the only solution--if you have identified a predator and you have a--some kind of judicial process that--the research is very clear that there is very little that can b..."