Sexual Assault Prevention: Reframing the Coast Guard Perspective to Address the Lowest Level of the Sexual Violence Continuum - Sexual Harassment
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2014] REFRAMING COAST GUARD SEXUAL HARASSMENT 75
SEXUAL ASSAULT PREVENTION: REFRAMING THE COAST
GUARD PERSPECTIVE TO ADDRESS THE LOWEST LEVEL
OF THE SEXUAL VIOLENCE CONTINUUM-SEXUAL
HARASSMENT
LIEUTENANT COMMANDER BRYAN R. BLACKMORE*
We get it. We know that the larger issue is a cultural problem, which has
allowed demeaning behavior and attitudes towards women to exist
within the Navy Department. Our senior leadership is totally committed
to confronting this problem and demonstrating that sexual harassment
will not be tolerated. Those who don't get the message will be driven
from our ranks.
-Acting Navy Secretary Sean O'Keefe1
In my view, all this stuff is connected. If we're going to
get serious about things like sexual assault, we have to
get serious about an environment that could lead to
sexual harassment. In some ways, this stuff can all be
linked.
-Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, Air Force Chief of Staff2
Judge Advocate, U.S. Coast Guard. Presently assigned as Advanced Operational Law
Fellow, Center For Law & Military Operations, The Judge Advocate General's Legal
Center & School, Charlottesville, Virginia. LL.M., 2014, The Judge Advocate General's
Legal Center & School, United States Army, Charlottesville, Virginia; J.D. 2006, Florida
State University College of Law; B.S., 1998, U.S. Coast Guard Academy. Previous
assignments include Deck Watch Officer, U.S. Coast Guard Cutter BOUTWELL
(WHEC 719), Alameda, California, 1998 2000; U.S. Coast Guard Intelligence
Coordination Center, Washington, DC (Indications & Warnings Watch Officer, 2000
2001; Chief, Alien Migration/Human Smuggling Branch, 2001 2003); Staff Attorney,
Coast Guard Atlantic Area/District Five Command Advice & Operational Law Branch,
Portsmouth, Virginia, 2006-2007; Trial Defense Counsel, Navy Legal Service Office
Mid-Atlantic, Norfolk, Virginia, 2008; Staff Attorney, Task Force 134 Central Criminal
Court of Iraq Liaison Office and Office of Criminal Investigations, Baghdad, Iraq,
September 2008 April 2009; Staff Attorney/Trial Counsel, Coast Guard Pacific Area,
Alameda, California, 2009 2013. Member of the bars of Virginia and the United States
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. This article was submitted in partial completion
of the Master of Laws requirements of the 62nd Judge Advocate Officer Graduate
Course.
1 Melissa Healy, Pentagon Blasts Tailhook Probe, Two Admirals Resign, L.A. TIMES,
Sept. 25, 1992, http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-25/news/mn-1182 1 investigative-
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