See the New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/20/us/harassment-of-woman-shakes-naval-academy.html

See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailhook_scandal

The memorandum, directed each DOD component to implement a sexual harassment eradication program that would incorporate, at a minimum, the following seven elements: (1) annual policy statements; (2) training programs for all personnel; (3) quality control mechanisms to ensure that training is working; (4) prompt, thorough investigations and resolutions of complaints; (5) procedures to hold commanders, supervisors, and managers accountable for providing guidance to personnel; (6) designation of sexual harassment as a special interest item for DODInspector General inspections/visits; and (7) accountability for compliance reflected in annual performance ratings and fitness reports as well as possible loss of benefits and imposition of penalties. Annual reports are required in response to this memorandum.

Read more about it here: https://www.gao.gov/assets/160/154095.pdf

A female freshman at the Air Force Academy told campus authorities that several young men had sexually assaulted her outside the cadet gymnasium. A dozen other women stepped forward to lodge complaints ranging from date rape to fondling.

Read more about it here:

https://www.gao.gov/assets/160/153750.pdf,

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/01/us/air-force-academy-zooms-in-on-sex-cases.html?campaignId=7JFJX

Two cadets (one male and one female) complained that the program's sexual exploitation sequence went too far. Air Force brass started the training after 23 female and male U.S. soldiers captured by Iraqis in the Persian Gulf War said they had been sexually assaulted and harassed. One cadet filed a law suit in 1995 and the case was settled out of court. SERE training was suspended for USAF cadets for a few years, then re-introduced in 1998, but with the "Sexual Exploitation" element removed.

Read more about it here:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/912/1384/1986359/

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/1995/apr/08/air-force-to-tone-down-training-role-playing-to/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppmjnn/the-uss-overlook-torture-scandal-from-1995-sere-solomon-hughes-109

"It was common knowledge among the females and virtually unknown to the males, whose perception was that sexual harassment didn't exist here. "

"The young men here are conservative and the young women are feminists in the sense that they're looking for equal opportunity; So we'll have a clash."

Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/01/us/air-force-academy-zooms-in-on-sex-cases.html?campaignId=7JFJX

"I've been called so many names that sometimes it doesn't even register that they are inappropriate. The lack of respect that the men have here for women is appalling, and challenging their actions only ostracizes women from the unit."

Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/05/us/study-says-sexual-harassment-persists-at-military-academies.html?searchResultPosition=21

See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberdeen_scandal

An e-mail was sent under the pseudonym Renee Trindle to various recipients, among them the Secretary of the Air Force, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Senator Wayne Allard, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, other U.S. Congressmen, and media representatives. The e-mail asserted there was a significant sexual assault problem at the Academy that had been ignored by the Academy’s leadership.

Read more about it here: https://archive.org/details/finalreportofpan00unit

"The Academy failed to protect women from sexual assault and instead investigated the victims for wrongdoing."

"Hard to change a culture that appears to accept violence against women and placed a higher premium on protecting friends than on upholding decency."

"Promises of change came only after intense pressure, some women cadets said they were unconvinced, because the disdain for women ran deeper than any specific policies or people."

"It's the entire place, It's the entire belief system, that women are inferior, and that's not so easy to change."

Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/us/4-top-officers-at-air-force-academy-are-replaced-in-wake-of-rape-scandal.html

"It should not take a press exposé and Congressional hearings to force the Air Force to address the problem of sexual assault at its academy."

Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/01/us/senators-call-for-outside-inquiry-into-air-force-academy.html?searchResultPosition=85

"It is such a complex issue, but the key was, is and always will be having in place knowledgeable and courageous leadership that will take action."

Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/20/us/air-force-academy-did-act-on-complaints-panel-finds.html?searchResultPosition=99

A seven-member congressionally mandated panel charged with investigating the United States Air Force Academy's sexual assault reports from 2003. The investigation took place over the course of three months with the goal of reviewing academy policies, revealing the crimes committed, and punishing the assailants.

Read the findings here: https://ia902702.us.archive.org/32/items/finalreportofpan00unit/finalreportofpan00unit.pdf

See the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Force_Basic_Training_scandal

An investigative piece is published by the Colorado Springs Gazette that said documents obtained by the newspaper showed the culture at the academy was so dangerous that school leaders canceled a 2012 sting operation because they were concerned confidential informants and undercover agents wouldn’t be able to protect women from rape at a party.

Read the full article here: https://gazette.com/sports/a-broken-code/article_97b9e453-fcab-5ee7-a577-7743c03260f3.html

Evaluation initiated based on a request from Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and John Thune. Their concerns were in response to a constituent’s complaint that focused on the alleged mishandling of sexual assault and drug investigations at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA).The constituent’s complaint arose from the AFOSI proactive drug and sexual assault initiative known as “Operation Gridiron.” Therefore, we also evaluated all sexual assault and drug investigations conducted by AFOSI at the USAFA between September 2011 and December 2012.

Read more about it here: http://www.dodig.mil/reports.html/Article/1119285/evaluation-of-a-complaint-regarding-the-handling-of-sexual-assault-and-drug-inv/

Investigators to examine the "culture and climate" of the office as well as "unprofessional relationships and inappropriate comments of a sexual nature" in the office.

Read more about it:

https://taskandpurpose.com/air-force-academy-sexual-assault-report

https://www.dodig.mil/Reports/Audits-and-Evaluations/Article/1977288/evaluation-of-the-dods-handling-of-incidents-of-sexual-assault-against-or-invol/

https://media.defense.gov/2019/Oct/02/2002189371/-1/-1/1/DODIG-2019-125.PDF

Movement of coming forward about sexual assault and harassment, making visible and tractable a problem that for so long was treated as invisible and intangible.

A six-month CBS News investigation looked into sexual assault at the U.S. Air Force Academy. More than a dozen current and former cadets say their sexual assault cases were mishandled -- and that they faced retaliation from peers and commanders.

Watch the video here: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/playlist/air-force-academy-sexual-misconduct-investigation/

In a New York Times article, author Dave Phillips and photographer Mary Calvert capture what they can of the stories of six military men who came forward about being sexually assaulted.

Read the full article at: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/10/us/men-military-sexual-assault.html