{"id":1969016,"date":"2023-07-10T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anna-paulina-luna-blasts-pentagon-for-prioritizing-wokeness-over-sexual-assault-training\/"},"modified":"2023-07-10T18:59:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T22:59:18","slug":"anna-paulina-luna-blasts-pentagon-for-prioritizing-wokeness-over-sexual-assault-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anna-paulina-luna-blasts-pentagon-for-prioritizing-wokeness-over-sexual-assault-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Paulina Luna criticizes Pentagon for valuing &#8216;wokeness&#8217; over sexual assault training."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanna-paulina-luna-blasts-pentagon-for-prioritizing-wokeness-over-sexual-assault-training%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1969016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Criticizes Pentagon&#8217;s Opposition to Bill Aimed at Lowering Sexual Assault Cases in the Military<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) has expressed her disappointment with the Pentagon&#8217;s response to her bill, the Stop Our Sexual Assault in the Military Act. The bill, which aims to address the increasing number of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/metoo-tweets-from-andrew-cuomo-that-aged-horribly\/\" title=\"#MeToo Tweets From Andrew Cuomo That Aged Horribly\">sexual assault cases<\/a> in the U.S. military, proposes monthly self-defense training for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-vaccine-supplies-arrive-in-south-korea\/\" title=\"U.S. vaccine supplies arrive in South Korea\">active service members<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense recently revealed that there were over 8,900 sexual assault reports in the military for fiscal 2022, marking an increase of 76 reports from the previous year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;The DOD\u2019s response says all you need to know about the state of our military right now,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Luna told Fox News. &#8220;It seems that the DOD prioritizes &#8216;wokeness&#8217; and imaginary solutions over equipping our service members with the right training to defend themselves and become a stronger fighting force for our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Luna shared that the Pentagon provided a statement to her office, stating their opposition to the bill. According to the statement, the self-defense classes could potentially re-traumatize victims of sexual assault and teach alleged perpetrators how to counter victim tactics. The Pentagon also argued that the training would not improve the treatment of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/progressive-lawyers-help-biden-administration-gut-devoss-title-ix-rules\/\" title=\"Progressive Lawyers Help Biden Administration Gut DeVos\u2019s Title IX Rules\">sexual assault victims<\/a> and could hinder the development of &#8220;healthy relationships&#8221; among service members while on duty.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;The U.S. military continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anna-paulina-luna-blasts-pentagon-for-prioritizing-wokeness-over-sexual-assault-training\/\" title=\"Anna Paulina Luna criticizes Pentagon for valuing 'wokeness' over sexual assault training.\">report extraordinarily high rates<\/a> of sexual assault against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-gary-sinise-foundation-celebrates-10-years-of-service\/\" title=\"WATCH: Gary Sinise Foundation Celebrates 10 Years Of Service\">active-duty service members<\/a>, making clear this problem is not being addressed by whatever tactics the DOD currently swears by,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Luna emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Luna, a veteran herself, expressed her concern over the Pentagon&#8217;s stance, stating that it is crucial for service members to be equipped with self-defense and combat training to defend themselves against attacks. She even referred to the DOD as the &#8220;Department of the Offended.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill was introduced by Luna and Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) in March, with the support of 14 Republican lawmakers. However, the House Committee on Armed Services has not yet voted on its passage.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner reached out to the Pentagon for comment, and a spokesperson responded, &#8220;It would be inappropriate to comment on pending legislation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that it opposes Rep. Anna Paulina Luna&#8217;s bill, the Stop Our Sexual Assault in the Military Act, which mandates monthly self-defense training for active service members. Rep. Luna (R-FL) expressed her disappointment with the Pentagon&#8217;s opposition to her efforts to reduce sexual assault cases in the U.S. military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1969017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}