Two months after President Joe Biden first ordered it, the Pentagon held the first meeting of a 90-day independent review commission on sexual assault in the military that its leader told the Washington Examiner will not include any active-duty members of the military.
Even before he was seated as defense secretary, at his Jan. 19 nomination hearing, Lloyd Austin indicated that sexual assault and harassment in the military would be one of his priority issues. On his first day at the Pentagon, Austin issued a memo on sexual assault and followed a month later with several “immediate actions,” including evaluating “high risk” installations such as Fort Hood. But the clock for the commission itself only started Wednesday, and senators on the Left are demanding faster action.
