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Does military culture foster environment of sex abuse?

Jennifer Hlad reports for Stars and Stripes on Protect Our Defenders Advocacy Committee Member Paula Coughlin-Puopolo:

“It comes down to archaic attitudes held by current leadership,” said Coughlin, who is now a board member for the advocacy group Protect Our Defenders.

“There are good people in the military who want that old attitude to go away,” she said, but the establishment “is clinging to traditions that are really now undermining the whole mission.”

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