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- NATION, Page 37American NotesARMED FORCESNaval Assaults
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- Recruiting posters of smiling female sailors in
- blue-and-white uniforms tout the Navy as a great career for
- women. What they don't brag about is the charges that have been
- leveled at the Navy for the way it treats many women. Now a
- report by the Navy's Inspector General has targeted the
- sprawling Orlando Naval Training Center, which includes the
- only boot camp for women, as the site of repeated infractions.
- During the 18-month period ending in June, the report said,
- there were at least six cases of rape of women at Orlando --
- and no prosecutions. The investigation also unearthed charges
- of sexual assaults and social-fraternization violations.
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- Navy spokesmen say all the rape cases were dropped either
- for lack of evidence or because the victims recanted. Still,
- the Inspector General criticized the investigation procedures.
- Last week the Navy brass -- already embarrassed during the past
- year by allegations of sexual harassment at the Naval Academy
- in Annapolis and of rape aboard two Navy ships -- ordered a
- service-wide review.
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