The Marines’ Sexual Assault Problem
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🗓️ 24 February 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The U.S. military has long had a sexual assault problem. And the Marine Corps - the final service branch to gender-integrate - is no exception. Though multiple scandals have rocked the Marines, continued abuses make it clear that deeper changes are needed to make all service people safe.
Guest: Erin Kirk-Cuomo, founder of #NotInMyMarineCorps.
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| 0:00.0 | Little warning here at the top, this show contains some raw language and discussion of sexual assault. |
| 0:10.7 | Did you expect the video to blow up the way it did? |
| 0:13.9 | I honestly, I did not. |
| 0:15.6 | Last week, Aaron Kirk Cuomo shared this video to her 4,000 odd followers. |
| 0:22.0 | She'd found it on TikTok. |
| 0:23.8 | It shows a female Marine in the rawest kind of distress, the kind where you can barely catch your breath. |
| 0:32.4 | This morning I posted a fucking TikTok. |
| 0:35.5 | She's sobby. |
| 0:36.8 | Distraught. |
| 0:38.0 | She's physically, you can see the physical and mental anguish that she's going through. |
| 0:45.6 | This anguish is over sexual assault, or more precisely, the Marine Corps' response to sexual assault. |
| 0:53.6 | The woman is claiming that a man who attacked her |
| 0:56.4 | is being protected by the Marine Command structure. |
| 1:00.3 | Well, not even fucking 10 minutes ago, I just got word |
| 1:03.6 | that this motherfucker will be getting retained |
| 1:07.5 | because they went all the way up across the board. |
| 1:10.4 | Everybody said that they would not retain him. |
| 1:13.0 | And the fucking head, |
| 1:14.2 | Hancho, |
| 1:14.7 | the fucking CG with all of the proof and a fucking admission to guilt, |
| 1:20.2 | decided that they will retain him. |
| 1:22.1 | And this is exactly why fucking females in the military fucking kill themselves. |
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