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On the recordMay 8, 2017
the officers aboard the commercial vessels object to the suggestion that the stand-down was somehow because a major portion of the sexual assault problem stemmed from the Sea Year program aboard commercial vessels.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker highlights objections to claims linking Sea Year program to sexual assault issues.

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