Patricia Schroeder: “the one thing every Member in this body should work very hard to do is to see that our men and women in uniform who are…”

“the one thing every Member in this body should work very hard to do is to see that our men and women in uniform who are out there for our freedoms are treated with respect and dignity, and the command is sending all the right messages. As we know, in Tailhook they have dismissed all the charges because the brave Navy captain who wrote the decision seemed to find exactly the same thing that our new Navy Secretary found, and that was the CNO, Mr. Kelso, happened to be at the event and sending all the wrong messages to our young people that this was OK. Therefore, we have 88 victims and no one held accountable, because it appears Admiral Kelso was winking at it. This has been brushed aside twice now. I am putting this decision in the Record. I hope every Member looks at this, and we call upon our new Secretary of Defense, Mr. Bill Perry, to please, please act on this. Otherwise I think it will look like we really do not care, and we really do not think how young women are treated in our military is very important, that an admiral is much more important than 88 women.”