the united states of america is waging war within its own army. and no one signs. and human losses are quite significant. is it possible to win the war against sexual assault in the u.s. armed forces. in the army. the russian capital. is good to have you with us top stories now with the number of drug test deaths increasing in india human rights activists accuse pharmaceutical

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jefferson barracks national symmetry here the u.s. military on a small children simply thousand wounded from can planes past and present. but for the family of one soldier buried here on the defense forces code of honor and respect means nothing. you blessed us when you gave to us. we just never imagined we wouldn't help her moment. today dr john johnson has come back to reaffirm his promise to his nineteen year old daughter that he will continue the fight to find out how she died.

i'm asking you to just continue to to bless us to encourage us to get justice for. dr johnson refuses to believe the on the spine thing that he's doing private living or at least johnson killed herself just five weeks into her tour of iraq by firing him sixteen rifle into. you get a nineteen year old female that gets off work she puts a reflective belt around her waist she stops at the piano bass soda lip balm and in many indigo say she walks across the post and said doubt in a dark trash contractors tip and sit down a shot of self with a male sixteen rifle and then believe makes sense as she put all her thing your

prayer and they'll all around the room and see with f. give me mom the happy rang out of this. and i can't bear to take it now. levine is not the linda i spoke to the night before she died she was her happy jubilant please self we laughed. and i say we will make it plain stocking about christmas and if it's july seventeenth. two days after that a soldier showed up unannounced at the johnson school in missouri. so he looked up at maine he said. are you lyndon johnson the mother i have a living will be. and i say you're sorry. what are you. any open his little book and he said he began to read i regretfully inform you that

your daughter private living only in chelsea. of a self-inflicted wound. and i just began screamin it holland i just moved past arkan believe. after the initial shock the family began to question the army's rush to judgment that living a died of a self-inflicted injury. that still want to write for. dr johnson is a veteran himself who went on to work for the army as a civilian specialist in psychology for nearly three decades but for the past three years he has studied every aspect of his daughter's did. but i am looking

for the sketch that the criminal investigators may. have missed the shell casing. here close up of it and love it as another blood pattern with his brother joe a former prisons officer with forensics training their spin countless hours analyzing in cross referencing photos reports and the testimony of those in the camp and i when the car off they stated that from the time he heard what he deemed to be out of the back far or a gun shot he looked in the direction and he saw flames coming from the tip no live d.f.a. see two with just a contract to stay. one of the many in consistencies according to dr johnson is the army's conclusion that living in a used in exhilarated to start a small fire to burn her diary which then spread to a nearby binge the witnesses say that the stone was lying on top of her someone

live in a cell in an excel it was sitting on the bottom of the still so physically better dead evidence just shows there was at least another person in that location when when she were by it was placed there because that's not where she. this also you believe that there is science that she was sexually assaulted. dr johnson believes levine was raped and mooted by someone in her camp and accuses the army of covering up a soldier on soldier slaying. it would be easy to dismiss his conclusions as the imaginings of a grief stricken father if that weren't the disturbing pattern of sex crimes in judicial inaction in the u.s. military is going to jessica and. i. jessica

kenyon is an army veteran and today she is giving a talk to students at a new york college there is. jessica says she survived multiple rapes in situ assaults joining the military korea and she is now campaigning to increase awareness of the problem is important for those of us who are able to speak out tutors for the ones who are just not able to mentally or emotionally or whatever so this is a infantry division which is basically everybody in korea becoming an officer had been her dream and then the wings in the u.s. signify that. but as a mechanic attached to a helicopter squadron kenyan found herself in a unit way few women had been before and in a culture where bullying and persecution was the norm it was just premature hazing

birthday or a tour you know where they do this they make them all up and then he's actually tied to a chair. right now but then they make a. sexual harassment at all levels was common place and. women were a source of derision in this video she countered her base a young soldier was taunted and humiliated by his commander for more than full al is after it was discovered he was of the. last in the us jessica says she was raped by a national guard soldier and later her wrist by who training instructor. jessica was then posted to korea where she continued working on apache helicopters and still had high hopes korea so it didn't really affect my work until i was fully

assaulted for raped by another soldier in korea who was actually a friend of mine here i had confided in i was overseas. and so. i didn't report that right away either as well because for the same exact reasons that i couldn't trust my commander my commanders or my sergeant or anything anyone associated with my commander. jessica says that she eventually made an official report after his superior insisted he would make sure who the silent this child. but when her attacker was found guilty she says that same command gave him just forty five. and a demotion to great. it really breaks my heart you know because i was going and i was really pushing for the twenty years ago officer you know fully capable but

you know it was just for all of that to go down knowing you know to me for me to do the right thing and then for them to not even hold their end of the bargain a little an add in the honor to it it was really pretty disgusting. most sexual assault filled victims are not treated well. they become a double victim they become a victim of the system is. retired army colonel and wright is another veteran campaigning against sexual assaults the issue of sexual assault in our u.s. military is very grave one in three women it appears have been sexually assaulted during the time they've been in the military. the former u.s. diplomats and antiwar activists believes the military justice system is stacked against sexual assault victims. tattling on someone else in your unit even though that person has committed a criminal act on you or gets out of the unit. has been messing around with someone

else and look at sergeant so and so he's being accused of rape and he's got a wife and two kids and we can't sacrifice his career because of this unmarried single night thousand year old woman that claims that he raped her you know one of the violent assaults and not the army's own only problem there's been a background in signing and suzanne suzanne this week in iraq in two thousand and four i'm up a sarah remembers will the night before who depart. and it was there in time because i remember during when all three of them were asleep and i thought this may be the last time i ever have all three of my kids sleeping in the same room. soon after arriving in iraq then nineteen year old suzanne started calling her mother to tell her about problems with the in her platoon i heard that the man that

told me don't worry memory and take good care of your daughter started asking her to go into a sexual relationship with her with him. this is the only one before us think you all the way. susan experienced a phenomena known in the military as come on draped genius soldiers by high ranking commanders into sexual relationships which the military legally defines as right a couple of months into. a kind of dawned on me it was that i could say no to it. i just hated it that much that i was like you know i don't care what you do to me she was telling me about the humiliation she was telling me about the things that these men were doing and saying. i remember one point she said mom you're either a bitch or whore and i don't want to be either one of those i don't want to be

a bitch i don't want to be a whore. and really i remember her cry. but when susan complained about how she was being treated she says she was threatened he called me into his room one night and. i know that you're thinking that it might be ok thing to go to the commander about this but i'm just going to deny it and you're going to be the one that gets in trouble. susan was saying to ensure timely but when it came time to ship back to iraq she threw her. and chose to go rather than return to face there is silence so why did you decide what happened that moment when you said no i just realized that i could there's no escape when you're there and there are no the guy in charge are you going. to make you do anything including like you know run through that minefield you know i don't like

you. this is in statement to the military about who come on drugs when she was eventually arrested in jails for going the army offered her a deal it would reduce his sentence if she signed a new watered down statement so says and response that was that i'm not doing that and then she took the document as she corrected it everything that they had written just so that they would really see what really happened to her you know i always and to this day absolutely believe my daughter one hundred percent but that really i mean she's she's got some power you know she's very powerful she's very strong and this showed me that she would rather go to prison then say you know been deny what happened to her. since we've does now out of the army and getting back into normal life today helping out

a friend with babysitting and this is. just like everybody doing normal regular life you know it's like. really very long but what's going on in the world when i'm out in the world doing other stuff. for the next eighteen months she's still on a really reserve least with the possibility of being called back hanging over her and her assailant still unpunished. a major cruise playing to the people that i've talked to who have been picked him. sexual assault is that when they reported it that they were victimized this is a phenomena that has existed and this is precisely part of the culture that we're we are in fact turning around. brigadier general jim phillips is a thirty year career veteran and deputy chief at the army's public relations

department before i go any farther i want to offer an apology to anyone associated with the army who has endured sexual abuse sexual harassment assault of any kind this is a this is a problem that the army is tackling with we're going at it full bore quite frankly . our sexual assault wounds the victim physically mentally and emotionally to try to change its culture the army recently launched an awareness campaign using d.v.d.'s like this one. is sexual assault or kurds it is a direct violation of not just our army core values and warrior ethos it is an assault on the army way of life our money from which it is our duty to protect take care of each other no matter the time place really what we're doing here is we're engaged in cultural change not to like what the army went through in the late forty's fifty's and into the sixty's as we addressed racial inequality cultural

change at a very profound level they are the army in fact is leading the country in this sort of cultural change the core of being president a civilian national those kinds and no longer recently ami civilian losses will come to order i find it outrageous that brave women at a hearing on situ assault in the military last september congresswoman carolyn maloney bemoaned the lack of progress by the department of defense i have been in congress for seven terms now and every single term we have had meetings with dia de . and they come in and they confirm to the us to us we're going to be serious we're going to take care of this we're going to stop this zero tolerance but the rhetoric is not being turned into the reality of protecting our women and in some cases men and our military just the committee was grilling dr kay whitley she's the head

of the defense department unit set up to address the six problem of course but dr whitley had filed to even turn up to an early a hearing and having finally appeared she had few and says even as to why her oversight body hadn't met for nearly two years do you know why didn't me. my understanding is they had a difficult time getting the right people in the job thing getting them cleared as i said i wasn't privy to the discussions about why it is the problem i'm having is that it sounds like your weak. state line tried to speak with dr whitley but she declined to be interviewed her. it seems that in this whole area all the army can do is apologize in fact we're the first thing we do is apologize because we do recognize that there is a problem that reflects

a society wide problem to say it's reflective that society is to dismiss the extent of the problem though isn't it because the problem is much bigger in the military then the real world we're acting aggressively on the problem and so the farthest thing we're doing is dismissing it what we're saying is we recognize that this is part of a larger piece the piece that we can act on is a piece in the army and that's what we're acting directly on and none of that is any consolation to john johnson look at video he is running down the left sad of her body which clearly implicates this she was lying on her lip side when she died knowing that not all her back like what like what she was found think him and his family this is and says goes on every piece of evidence they have had to be forced out of the army using freedom of information requests said to have to apply constantly under freedom of information to be subjected to rounds and rounds of

paperwork just to find out the basics is that how it is information that is available to them under the law and under policy should be forthcoming but if it hasn't been a that that is a mistake there should be corrected. dr jones and believes the small fine and the next to his daughter's body is evidence that someone tried to cover up the smiling the young niece says there's no evidence to back that. the fire inside the tent resulted from p.f.c. johnson sitting some papers on she used to accelerate to ignite several pages that she had ripped out of a notebook which is believed to have been a diary. the army investigators also claim that living in his behavior prior to did pointed to suicide but her. own company commanders statement suggested otherwise this soldier was clearly happy and seemingly very healthy physically and

emotionally. with no suicide note no recovered baluch no significant gunshot residue on her hands and injuries the johnsons believe look cool by an attack on they decided to push on with their own inquiries and use force taking you behind the scenes of the investigation into the death of a local soldier dead a private living at johnson is clouded in controversy and allegations of a cover up new source matt says he was a johnson's head living in his body exe umed and an independent autopsy conducted by missouri state officials but it filed to provide conclusive and says this examination does not demonstrate any evidence of an assault but you can't eliminate sexual activity by an examination of an adult person and if there is no injury that doesn't mean that there hasn't been sexual activity so you can't rule it out you

cannot rule it out. with the military having filed to conduct a right to exist at the time if they did there was little that could be done. nine months to living is still the defense force finalized its report officially concluding that she committed suicide and that the case speak low sed. of the dripping looks like it's this one of the name of the russian so the implication here is that when this event took place that they like was reversed position. peter die of shock in the truck with forensic scientists at john jay college of criminal justice in new york just melted plastic stuck deadline approached them to take an independent look at the living a johnson case but it after reviewing the evidence they say they understand why the johnsons doubt the military's findings is it in your mind a suicide. that conclusion i believe it's premature at this point it is one of the

potential conclusions but to say definitively i don't say enough compelling evidence taken overall to state that it is in fact a suicide and i think that's one of the possibilities. both have concerns about evidence that appears missed all missing including the failure to test if she had been six is sold. they said it wasn't done for she disclosed the standard not to say we don't you don't need to that really doesn't matter people can be addressed on drastic cetera so the fact she had some burning possible burning on the skin. on the way and not apparent burning on the clothing might mean something happened with the clothing off so these are the things you want to check that's why you got old america checked these things to eliminate the possibility of them having happened i think that there are so many unanswered questions about levine and steph

and how how her body was found in a tent how she was able to kill herself set herself on fire set the tent on fire. i'm. stunned that so little investigation was done at the scene itself. tragically according to and right the johnson story is not unique of the more than one hundred fifteen thing now service member deaths in the iraq and afghanistan wars sixteen have been ruled suicides. i've talked to four of the families of those women and they maintain. their daughter sister did not commit suicide. and question very strongly. what did go on and all of them are getting no cough aeration from the military from the army they are being told. there's nothing else to investigate we finished our investigation and we're not

reopening it. so the johnsons each day is a struggle they do says big dream remains untouched that there are no youth otos of anywhere in the house. when she left me in such a horrible horrible way it hurts me even more to look at that smile. hell of a lot to go through. how do you keep doing this. you know i think originally this was tough. but i want to mission you know somebody murdered my daughter. i couldn't give up all my baby so i'm going to fight until i get justice for. what's justice they need to make some changes in their attitude about the how they treat women in

the military just get past look they know that's not all for me it's going to be a fight now to see if we can get some changes in. the most of us being to the kaluga me in the. industry is rapidly developing. if not all argee goes to the area where the first russian fleet was more. where the indigenous people were the first target she's now beginning and where russia's glorious history is still visible. wellcome believe me. russia close up.