"Too many of our leaders... abdicated their responsibility, you know, to their service members and those families in providing that oversight."
"the goal is prevention."
"Are the Navy and the Marines doing something similar to more granularly zero in on your own data in your service rather than the general across the board DoD service like the Army has?"
"that shows the importance that we have as an organization in solving this problem."
"I want to hear from each of you how you are analyzing the degree to which increases are due to increased reporting or increases in sexual assaults in your branch of service."
"understanding the data is a critical tool in order to ensure that."
"That is incredibly important to understand whether the numbers that you are looking at are the result of more reporting or more assaults."
"if you can just follow up with us with more detail about how that question instrument was designed that would be helpful."
"leadership needs to be part of solving this problem, and I do believe that with the cultural transformation that we have had..."
"I hope to see a significant improvement, but I am doubtful."
"This committee is led by a Texan and a Floridian, and I think we would say we are definitely pro air conditioning."