FOIA Runaround Continued . . .
everything I asked for. I received the following email response to my
new FOIA request on March 4, 2014:
“Please find the attached documents pertaining to your FOIA
request 2014-003131. If you have any questions or concerns please
let me know.”
Attached to the email were two spreadsheets of names, ranks,
pleas, findings, convictions, and sentencing of sailors and Marines
stationed at U.S. military installations across the globe. I had requested
the information for years 2007 to the present, but did not receive
information from 2007 or 2009. Most of the names were duplicated
throughout the two spreadsheets, making it difficult to quantify the
number of people charged with sexual misconduct.
Interestingly, there was a significant increase in the number of
Marines and sailors receiving a court martial for sexual misconduct
involving articles 134 or 120 between the years 2008 and 2010. For
2008 one spreadsheet indicated nine Marines received a court martial,
but only five names were listed, while the other spreadsheet listed six
different names for the same y X\