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National Guard commander leads from experience

The Baltimore Sun reports:

The public service video produced by the Maryland National Guard on sexual assault begins like others. There’s footage of troops training in the field. A narrator warns of predators within the ranks. A succession of leaders discusses the impact of assaults on service members and their teams.

Then Brig. Gen. Linda Singh comes on the screen.

“Speaking from personal experience, and having been sexually molested as a teenager, I sought out what I thought was the right support structure,” the commander of the Maryland Army National Guard says. “And, unfortunately, it turned out not being the support structure that I needed.”

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