Pentagon Toughens Policy on Sexual Assault
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The Pentagon announced steps on Tuesday to prevent the sexual assults, investigate them more thoroughly when they occur and treat victims with more consideration.
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Pentagon officials yesterday repudiated the harsh interrogation tactics adopted since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, specifically forbidding U.S. troops from using forced nudity, hooding, military dogs and waterboarding to elicit information from detainees captured in ongoing wars.
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Brig. Gen. Dana Born, the newly appointed academic dean of the Air Force Academy, said the institution has emerged stronger following a sexual assault scandal that led to widespread reforms and a leadership shake-up.
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The U.S. military rejected a 1994  proposal to develop an "aphrodisiac" to spur homosexual  activity among enemy troops but is hard at work on other  less-than-lethal weapons, defense officials said on Sunday.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered tougher oversight of private guards in Iraq, including tighter rules on the use of force, following deadly shootings involving U.S. security contractor Blackwater.
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WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is under increasing fire for its handling of the prison abuse investigation, as some retired military officers call for an independent commission to get to the bottom of the four-month-old scandal.    Their appeal came a day before Thursday's hearings by the Senate and House armed services panels, which were reviewing the two latest reports ordered by the Defense Department...
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Military extends restrictions on troops stationed in Okinawa following uproar over the arrest of a US marine accused of raping 14-year-old girl
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The U.S. military on Wednesday weighed into the politically explosive case of a Sunni woman allegedly raped last weekend by three Iraqi policemen, announcing its own investigation after the Shiite-run government dismissed her allegations as false.
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An Air Force drill sergeant and former Iowa National Guard member who posed nude for Playboy magazine has been removed from active duty, she said Wednesday. Whether that amounts to an honorable discharge, as Michelle Manhart also says, is unclear.
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The Pentagon's "don't ask, don't tell" policy is being challenged by 12 gays who have been separated from the military because of their homosexuality.
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The Pentagon on Thursday opposed  calls for an independent investigation of prisoner abuse from  human rights groups and a key congressional Democrat, who said  such a probe was the only way to get to the truth.
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A Pentagon-run Web site intended to make it easier for Americans overseas to vote by absentee ballot has been modified to broaden access to the site, the Defense Department said on Wednesday.
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The US military will Wednesday slap a curfew on troops in the southern island of Okinawa after a series of incidents including an alleged rape that has led to new tensions, reports said.
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WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon&#39;s &quot;don&#39;t ask, don&#39;t tell&quot; policy is being challenged by 12 gays who have been separated from the military because of their homosexuality.
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More than 100 young women who expressed interest in joining the military in the past year were preyed upon sexually by their recruiters. Women were raped on recruiting office couches, assaulted in government cars and groped en route to entrance exams.
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The military is investigating charges that a female noncommissioned officer physically attacked a young male recruit, setting back claims that the introduction of women into the Italian military had helped ...
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The Pentagon announces a new investigation into abuse allegations at its detention centre in Guantanamo.