Darin Haas, Fort Campbell Sexual Assault Program Manager, Arrested In Domestic Dispute

[Tx4obama]

Source: AP via HuffPo

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. — The manager of the sexual assault response program at Fort Campbell, Ky., was arrested in a domestic dispute and relieved of his post, authorities said Thursday.

Lt. Col. Darin Haas (HAHZ') turned himself in to police in Clarksville, Tenn., late Wednesday on charges of violating an order of protection, and stalking. Master Sgt. Pete Mayes, a spokesman for the Army post on the Tennessee-Kentucky line, said Haas was immediately removed as manager of a program meant to prevent sexual harassment and assault and encourage equal opportunity.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/16/darin-haas-arrested_n_3288732.html

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This makes the THIRD military sexual assault response program person to be relieved of duty within a week!

One in the Air Force, two in the Army.

[heaven05]

1. something

is very very wrong in the world. All this assault and anger prevalent in the world of our military. Something is systemically wrong. What is going on??????

[bluedigger]

3. Couple of things.

First, the positions are clearly seen as a place to park personnel who are unfit for other duties and too much trouble to be dismissed.

Secondly, the promotion structure is set up in such a way that commanders are discriminated against who aggressively pursue charges of sexual assault for having unfit commands.

[WooWooWoo]

4. based on my limited experience with sexual assault briefs and the people who run them

being "voluntold" to be in charge of a sexual assault response or prevention program (or really any program that adds to your additional MOS requirements) is something most of these people would rather not be doing.

[sarge43]

8. Yup. Career killer

No authority, but lots of responsibility for the FUBARs.

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Sen McCaskill' and Sen Gillibrand's heads would explode.............

if they had any clue as to how often military officers and soldiers batter their spouses.

They'd be equally surprised at how often these batterers' commanding officers know and turn a blind eye to it...........until a spouse gets killed. Then a "zero tolerance" policy is adopted until everybody stops paying attention in about 6 months.

Then it's back to the same old same old!

[WooWooWoo]

5. i had a guy in my platoon

who hit his wife. The police were called, he was arrested. 1sgt and his platoon sergeant had to come pick him up from jail.

Never got punished, other than having to sleep in the barracks for like two weeks.


meanwhile, I saw about 10 guys get dropped in rank, had their pay cut in half, do extra duty for a month and a half - and eventually kicked out - all for pissing hot.

[unhappycamper]

6. We also have an Army Brig. Gen. in the mix:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/11793793

[sarge43]

7. So many foxes, so few chicken coops

I also noticed so far no women in charge of these programs. Not that women are inherently more honest than men, just less likely to commit sexual assault or domestic violence.

The quality of the CYA has certainly gone down since I worked the bs pump.

[panzerfaust]

9. USN: Come On! Remember Tailhook!! Go Navy!!!

Don't let the other services show you up like this!

The evidence good is that the Navy is just as dedicated as the other services to keeping service women living in fear - it just isn't getting that message out there to the world. Don't let them walk away with all the great press coverage. I know you can do it.



For those who may not have been born, here is a good Tailhook overview:

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In 1992, a young Navy lieutenant named Paula Coughlin said she had been sexually assaulted at the 35th Annual Tailhook Symposium in Las Vegas.

Her complaints revealed an ugly side to the annual convention for “Top Gun” aviators: 83 women and 7 men were later found to have been assaulted during the raucous party weekend in September 1991. The resulting scandal forced the resignation of the secretary of the Navy, the censure of several admirals and the enactment of a reform agenda that stressed a “zero tolerance” policy.

Did it make a difference? More than two decades later the news remains extremely discouraging.

...

This week’s developments {Ed: Lt. Col Krusinski, Chief of Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program being arrested for sexual assault} make the Retro Report video documentary on the Tailhook scandal particularly timely for providing a historical context to a problem that will not go away. On the Retro Report video, Navy Petty Officer Jenny McClendon tells an interviewer of the abuse she faced years after the supposed Tailhook reforms were adopted: “I presumed that I was going to join a group of people who were my comrades. When I got to the ship, it was a while before – was probably a couple of months before we went from harassment to – to the groping, and the groping eventually culminated in several physical assaults and a cou — — a few rapes.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/booming/revisiting-the-militarys-tailhook-scandal-video.html