Las Vegas Sun

April 25, 2024

In this April 25, 2013, file photo, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey speaks to soldiers of the U.S. Armed Forces in Japan at Yokota Air Base on the outskirts of Tokyo. An Associated Press investigation into the military’s handling of sexual assaults in Japan has found a pattern of random and inconsistent judgments in which most offenders are not incarcerated. Instead, commanders have ordered “nonjudicial punishments” that ranged from docked pay to a letter of reprimand.

Shizuo Kambayashi / AP File Photo

In this April 25, 2013, file photo, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey speaks to soldiers of the U.S. Armed Forces in Japan at Yokota Air Base on the outskirts of Tokyo. An Associated Press investigation into the military’s handling of sexual assaults in Japan has found a pattern of random and inconsistent judgments in which most offenders are not incarcerated. Instead, commanders have ordered “nonjudicial punishments” that ranged from docked pay to a letter of reprimand.