Lawmakers demand military leaders curb sex assaults

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U.S. Senator Mikulski walks off stage with fellow female members of the U.S. Senate after addressing second session of the Democratic National Convention in CharlotteBy David Alexander WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senators alarmed by a jump in sex crimes in the U.S. military called on Wednesday for a cultural overhaul of the Air Force and a lawmaker exposed a web page used by Marines that she said depicted a "culture of misogyny and sexual harassment." "I'm just fed up with this sexual assault stuff," Senator Barbara Mikulski told a hearing with top Air Force leaders a day after the Pentagon released its 2012 annual report on sexual assault in the military, which showed a 37 percent jump in estimated sex crimes to 26,000. …

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