Military Review English Edition March-April 2015 | Page 26

(Photo by Staff Sgt. Michael Beck, South Dakota National Guard) Sgt. 1st Class Kelley Crane of the South Dakota National Guard represents the soldier demographic in a silent portrait representing victims of sexual violence at a press conference 13 April 2012 hosted by Working Against Violence, Inc., Rapid City, South Dakota. As we should expect, such abuses happen primarily at the lower levels, at the young levels of leadership, though the abuses of more senior leaders of the recent past may come more quickly to mind. The culture that sets the conditions for this kind of abuse of power is deeply rooted in language. If we call a man a “stud” because of his sexual activities, F