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- Both of them, you know, go towards our awareness,
right, so protecting our people protects our mission.
I think that that says a lot about making sure that each
individual person within the military is taken care of,
making sure that we are not committing sexual assault,
and if we do have a victim or
survivor of sexual assault, that they know
that there are resources out there for them,
and that we are here for them,
and knowing that
they are being supported through the DOD.
And then the Navy's campaign is raising your voices and
making our voices heard,
that this is not tolerated, that it's not okay,
and also making sure that we're being
that active bystander, that we're going out,
that if we're seeing something,
we're saying something and we're doing something.
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So, somebody who's witnessed a case,
or has been affected by sexual assault,
they can reach out to
their victim advocates within their commands,
or any other command, and reach out to the SARCs.
They can also go speak with chaplains, they can talk to
the victim's legal counsel,
or to mental health, and that
would keep their reports restricted, and that would give
them that option to go unrestricted if they so choose.
I always recommend to not tell anybody about it until
you come see a SARC,
and you make a report,
just so you can leave those options open.
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Each case is individualized, and it definitely depends
on that person and what that case involves.
If an individual came into my office, I would talk to them
and see what's going on,
and I would let them know what their options are,
between the two different case types,
the restricted and unrestricted,
or the individual could choose not to have a case at all.
And we would still work with them,
we would get them the resources that they need.
If they decided to open a case,
we would offer them a victim advocate.
Once again that's something that
that individual can choose to have or not have.
From them typically what we would do is
we would get them referrals
to other resources that we offer such as
your medical, your mental health,
the chaplains, if they need to go to family advocacy
or any other programs like that.
Once that happens, depending if they want unrestricted,
the command would be called on a need to know basis
and then NCIS will get involved
and start their interview process.
And then from there it would go in to
the investigation and then after that investigation,
would be decided if there would be a court-martial or not.
I think at the bystander intervention, training is
absolutely one hundred percent helping and
I know that all of the granters of the military,
they are implementing this bystander intervention.
And I think it's important that people are
you know being that
battle buddy or that wingman or
any other terminology that you would like to use as a
bystander. Make sure that that we're taking
care of each other and I think that's
essential in all of our core values.
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