Major General Mary Kay Hertog, then-head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office, advised survivors of sexual assaults to talk to their congressman if they were not satisfied with how the military dealt with their case.
The Military Justice Improvement Act would remove oversight of sexual assault cases from the chain of command and allow victims to report their assaults to an independent prosecutor.
Its future means of performing amphibious assaults (the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle), its principal airborne assault vehicle (the V-22 Osprey) and the backbone of its dedicated ground-support aviation for decades to come (the F-35) would all be eliminated or rendered unaffordable.