The gentleman's time has expired.

I think it is important to point out that, if they go to court-martial and are convicted, they can be jailed, they can be separated from the military, they can lose rank.

I appreciate you being here today.

One in four service women and 1 in 16 service men experience sexual harassment.

Since 2010, the Department of Defense [DOD] estimates that roughly 135,000 Active Duty service members... have been sexually assaulted.

I thought that was a way of establishing accountability and hopefully to discourage that kind of behavior.

I believe the commission's rationale for removing sexual assault prosecution decisions from the chain of command also applies to other felony-level offenses that are non-military-specific.

Let me just follow up with that briefly, Ms. Tokash.

Deputy Secretary, you are aware, of course, that many other countries have included nonmilitary felonies and it has not impacted good order and discipline or unit cohesion, including the U.K., Canada, Germany, Israel, correct?

The other issue that is plaguing me, as well, is child abuse.

When Vanessa Guillen's murder took place at Fort Hood, the inspector general went down within a short period of time, came back, and reported that everything was just fine.

The IRC recommended that sexual harassment be investigated by trained investigators outside the chain of command.