USA Today: Suit revives controversy on Air Force explicit songbook
Protect Our Defenders President Col. Don Christensen is featured in this USA Today article:
Retired Col. Don Christensen, a former chief prosecutor for the Air Force and president of the military sexual assault victims advocacy group Protect Our Defenders, compared the songbook — and the lack of consequences for officers involved with it — to the video of a racist chant that recently shut down the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity at the University of Oklahoma.
“We all just a few weeks ago saw this ugly scandal at the University of Oklahoma where there were kids straight out of high school singing a song — an inappropriate song, a horrible song,” Christensen said. “A 9-second video shut down the school.
“If you look at this book, it has the most misogynistic trash you can imagine. This is something that is used by Air Force officers today,” he said. “These are the commanders who sing songs about raping women as fun. These are the people Sgt. Smith has to look to get relief, to get justice.”
