Category: Department of Defense
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Lt. Col James Wilkerson, convicted of sexual assault, is assigned to victim’s hometown

By Panayiota Bertzikis. In November 2012 military jury convicted Air Force Lt. Col James Wilkerson, a former inspector general at Aviano Air Base in Italy, of sexually assaulting a civilian contractor. After being found guilty by a jury of five; four colonels and a lieutenant colonel, he was sentenced to a year in jail, forfeiture of all pay and discharged from the service. Three months later, in February…
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Military Rape Crisis Center recomendations for changes in SAPR approved.
Air Force Maj. Gen. Mary Kay Hertog will be replaced as the Director of SAPRO in July by a new director, Army Maj. Gen Gary S. Patton. In the short time that Maj. Gen. Mary Kay Hertog served as Director of SAPRO an increase in the number of servicemen and women came forward reporting that…