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Reports of sexual assault in the military rose during October 2011 through September 2012 by 6 percent from the prior year. A total of about 26,000 service members said they experienced unwanted sexual contact in 2012, nearly 7,000 more than in 2010, when about 19,300 members of the military reported inappropriate sexual contact.
Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10), who has introduced the Expedited LNG for American Allies Act (H.R. 580), submitted the following statement for the record as the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power held a hearing on "U.S. Energy Abundance: Exports and the Changing Global Energy Landscape."
Congressman Mike Turner, Co-Chair of the Military Sexual Assault Prevention Caucus, released the following statement upon being briefed by the Defense Department on their Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military:
Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10) has lead the Ohio Congressional Delegation in a letter of support for the selection of the Ohio/Indiana Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Center & Test Complex to be selected as one of the six UAS Test Sites required by the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (Public Law 112-95). The selection of Ohio and Indiana as a UAS Test Site would be a boost to research endeavors in the region as well as local economies.
By DONNA CASSATA | Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Outrage over an Air Force officer's decision to overturn a jury's guilty verdict in a sexual assault case has Republicans and Democrats joining forces on ambitious legislation to change the military justice system.
On both sides of the Capitol, lawmakers have interpreted Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's recent proposal to essentially stripcommanding officers of their ability to reverse criminal convictions of service members as an opening to revise the decades-old Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Congressman Mike Turner and 15 other House Armed Services Committee members wrote to Congressman Bill Young, Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, to urge him to include funding in the FY2014 Defense Appropriations Mark for the East Coast missile defense site. The lawmakers requested that funding be at least $250.0 million for expenses related to site design, missile complex development and installation of hardware and software, and GBI procurement for the site. These funds are based on budget recommendations from the Missile Defense Agency's presentation of March 5, 2012. The lawmakers vowed to take similar action in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014.
The world's first unmanned aerial system(UAS), the "Kettering Bug," was developedbythe Dayton-Wright Airplane Company in 1918. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI), the international UAS promotional organization, was founded in Southwest Ohio in 1972.