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On the recordFebruary 25, 2014
The figures are some 22,000-plus sexual assaults occur in the military in a given year, and only a very insignificant number of these crimes are ever reported to the chain of command.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono highlights the alarming rate of unreported military sexual assaults.

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