Biden signs historic order moving prosecution of military sexual assault outside chain of command |

President Joe Biden on Friday ordered a historic change to the Uniform Code of Military Justice by transferring key decision-making authorities outside the military chain of command in cases of sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, murder and other serious crimes.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/28/politics/biden-executive-order-sexual-assault-military/index.html

It was in the chain of command before? Wow gee I wonder how that could possibly go wrong!

I know a soldier who got drunk and sexually assaulted a chick one night. She reports it, they run it up the chain of command, and the unit treats the case like shit. He runs fast and does a lot of push ups, so they had him deploy to Afghanistan while he was under investigation. Uh oh now the can’t investigate him. Supposedly assaults another soldier while he’s out there, but she is too scared to make a report.

A year passes, the chain of command promotes the rapist to SGT, case closed due to ‘lack of evidence’ and the chick gets discharged with PTSD. God bless 'em.

Why the fuck are these cases even handled by the military and not the regular criminal and civil courts?

Because the military has been fighting it for years. I remember having a SHARP class where the instructor was telling us that we didn’t want this, that civilians shouldn’t get involved in military matters and some other bullshit I can’t recall.

I was too young, dumb, and loyal to a fault to understand what was being said.