Members of the U.S. Coast Guard
The US Senate’s homeland security and government affairs subcommittee on investigations said sexual assault and harassment have been “fleet-wide problems” for the federal agency, “impacting enlisted members and officers just as pervasively as cadets”.
(New London, CT) – Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal released a report today that he said contains dozens of firsthand accounts from more than 80 whistleblowers have testified that leaders at the Coast Guard Academy ignored decades of systemic sexual assault and harassment. Multiple reports say that as chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Blumenthal is holding a hearing Thursday (August 8) at Connecticut College in New London. Three whistleblowers are expected to testify. Blumenthal said whistleblowers make it clear that sexual assaults and sexual harassment in the Coast Guard is a fleet-wide problem.
The US Senate’s homeland security and government affairs subcommittee on investigations said sexual assault and harassment have been “fleet-wide problems” for the federal agency, “impacting enlisted members and officers just as pervasively as cadets”.
