Sunday Times: Future American generals sent marching over sex emails
The Sunday Times in Great Britain has a special report today on MST in the American military:
THE rugby team of West Point military academy, New York, has been disbanded and its players stripped of their ranks after an investigation into lewd chain emails found them guilty of perpetuating a “culture of disrespect towards women”.
Players, some of whom could be destined to become generals, had shared emails with the entire rugby squad in which they rated female cadets and civilian girlfriends according to their sexual attractiveness and joked about rape, incest and homosexuality.
Concern has reached the White House, which last week asked West Point for details about the case.
Last weekend Chuck Hagel, the defence secretary, spoke at a West Point ceremony during which 14 rugby players were allowed to graduate. He said that sexual harassment and sexual assault were “debilitating, insidious and destructive forces” in the military and told cadets: “You must be the generation of leaders that stops it . . . this scourge must be stamped out.”
