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More than 8% of women in the U.S. military were sexually assaulted in 2021, even as reporting rates actually dropped, numbers a Defense Department spokeswoman labeled “extremely disappointing” and “tragic” when they were released in 2022. On Friday, after a decade-long effort to change the way the military handles sexual assault, President Joe Biden gave final approval to the most significant changes to the Uniform Code of Military Justice since it was established in 1950.
Biden has “made clear that our one truly sacred obligation as a nation is to prepare and equip those we send into harm’s way, and to care for them and their families both while they are deployed and when they return home,” a White House statement said. “The reforms implemented through [Friday’s] executive order do just that.”
