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“Retired Air Force Colonel Don Christensen is President of Protect our Defenders -a group focused on combating sexual violence in...
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“One legislative effort Protect Our Defenders has been deeply involved with has been Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s Military Justice Improvement Act...
Failing Private Burnham: How the Army Did Not Protect a Minnesota Soldier after a Sexual Assault
“It’s inconceivable that they let her languish in Korea,” said Don Christensen, president of Protect our Defenders, a Washington D.C....
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