Lackland Air Force Base News

In this June 22, 2012, image made from video, female airmen march during graduation at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.

Lawmakers say they're outraged that for the second time this month a member of the armed forces assigned to help prevent sexual assaults in the military is under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct.

Hagel informed Obama of latest sex abuse case Associated Press Copyright 2013 Associated Press.

A soldier assigned to coordinate a sexual assault prevention program in Texas is under investigation for "abusive sexual contact" and other alleged misconduct and has been suspended from his duties, the Army announced Tuesday.

Day, June 6, 1944, Omaha Beach, Normandy. Staff Sgt. Robert Brant, U.S. Army, started his journey across France and ended it in the Rhineland a year later.

Unreported sexual assaults soared in the ranks last year even as the problem has reached The White House.

In Alaska, law enforcement officials are fuming after a military jury this month convicted a Marine Corps recruiter of first-degree sexual assault in the rape of a 23-year-old female civilian but did not send him to prison.

The pattern is all too familiar. Rocked by sexual abuse within its ranks - 1992 at Tailhook, 1996 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, 2002 at the Air Force Academy, 2011 at Lackland Air Force Base - the military vows no tolerance and promises action.

Sexual predators filled last week's news. Three young women broke free from a Cleveland house where they had been imprisoned as sex slaves for a decade.

This has been a distressing week for the U.S. military and its proud tradition of dedicated service to mission and comrades.

U.S. Marine Cpl. David Sonka, of Parker, who was killed by an Afghanistan Army soldier he was training, will be remembered Sunday night outside Chaparral High School.

First Lt. Wajeeha Omar is the 455th Expeditionary Medical Operations Squadron patient movement nurse at the Craig Joint Theater Hospital on Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.

In creating solid friendships with Central and South America, instructor Capt. William Toronto from The Air Force Judge Advocate General's School at Maxwell taught military officers of Colombia, Paraguay and Guatemala the rule of law at the Inter-American Air Force Academy at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, April 18-22. "IAAFA has a big mission ... (more)

THE PATTERN is all too familiar. Rocked by sexual abuse within its ranks - 1992 at Tailhook, 1996 at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, 2002 at the Air Force Academy, 2011 at Lackland Air Force Base - the military vows no tolerance and promises action.

Air Force Airman Alejandro Munera graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, after completing an intensive, eight-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, basic warfare principles and skills.

Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey Krusinski, the U.S. Air Force 's top officer for sexual assault prevention, had a trial set for July 18 at his first court appearance on a charge of groping a woman in a suburban Virginia parking lot.

Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree is among a small group of House and Senate lawmakers who are meeting with top Obama administration officials this morning to discuss the issue of sexual assault in the military.

A former soldier from Kansas City and his retired bomb-sniffing dog have received awards from the Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award Foundation.

Airman 1st Class Jeffrey Ellis, 49th Security Forces Squadron entry controller apprentice from Waldorf, Md., will join Tops in Blue in early October as a vocalist.

The military's sexual assault problem is serious but it should not be taken out of the hands of commanders and put in the hands of military prosecutors.