Jackie Speier

But without addressing the root causes, this will do little to stem the departure of valuable experienced military pilots.

The shortage of military pilots does, of course, have a direct impact on readiness.

So no one aviator is going to get a $35,000 check, or will they?

Thank you all for your service to our country.

It costs millions of dollars and years of training to produce just a single aviator.

What measures of effectiveness or metric have been established with respect to your social media policies?

It is not a sexual preference. It is a sexual orientation, and it would behoove all of us to use the term that really is reflective of what is a sexual orientation.

I want to have them answer whether or not they will report back to me.

I am very troubled that this has not been addressed. I think you can understand my frustration.

I think it would be edifying to you if you all had Facebook pages because it might help you understand how it is being used and misused.

That is clearly under 120c.

So revenge porn is normally where it is--it is a photograph, an image that is taken of someone with consent and then subsequently distributed without consent.

First of all, article 120c has been around since 2012. So you have had 5 years to use it, and my first question is going to be have any of you used 120--article 120c in actually enforcing the social media misuse of photographs?

We have introduced legislation last week that would amend UCMJ to include the prohibition of nonconsensual sharing of explicit photographs.

Nothing has changed. Of the 30,000 persons that are on that Marines United website, 730 of them are Active Duty, and 150 of them are Reserves.

I think that you are wrong. I think that this goes to just fundamental values. It goes to fundamental culture.

We need to talk about how to end this hatred and misogyny.

If it is not engrained into daily life and operations of the military, then I believe it is not taken seriously.

All of these services have had social media policies that state it is against good order and discipline to make disrespectful and derogatory posts.

No one has ever gone on Facebook, looked at nonconsensually posted intimate photos, typed a rape threat, and then stopped and said, Oh, I better not make rape threats, that is against the military's social media policy.

Framing the issue as military social media policies, frankly, misses the point.

We just got word that the President has recommended a 28 percent cut in the State Department.

It sounds to me a lot like the 2016 Presidential campaign.

I want to thank you for having this hearing. I think this is really a critical area that we spend really too little time and underfund our efforts mightily.

4 years ago, I stood on this same floor and condemned the online bullying of U.S. Marine Corps servicewomen on a public Facebook page. Today I stand before you again, incredulous, angry, and sad, to say that absolutely nothing has changed…