Guess What the Air Force's Chief of Sexual Assault Prevention Was Just Arrested For

Congress and the President have recently expressed great concern about the extremely poor handling of sexual assault cases by the United States military.  Incidents like the ones referenced in the plagiarized title of this post help to explain why that might be the case.

Yesterday, police in northern Virginia arrested the Air Force’s chief of sexual-assault prevention — for sexual assault.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, Jeffrey Krusinski, 41, was “arrested and charged with sexual battery,” according to the Arlington, Virginia police department. According to the arrest report, Krusinski drunkenly “approached a female victim in a parking lot and grabbed her breasts and buttocks.”

Until today, Krusinski, a lieutenant colonel, was the chief of the Air Force’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Program. An Air Force spokesman, Maj. Eric Badger, told Danger Room that the Air Force removed Krusinski from his position within the program, “immediately upon learning of the arrest.” (It’s worth mentioning that the Air Force did not initially confirm Krusinski’s arrest when Danger Room spoke to a different spokeswoman, Jennifer Cassidy; and deferred that confirmation to the Arlington police.)

Unexplained actions by multiple generals, even a female one, setting aside sexual assault convictions secured in courts-martial, in the midst of Congressional investigations of the issue, also have something to do with this reality.

The military justice system has always been broken.  But, every once and a while, the military's values grow so out of touch with those of our country that we are reminded of that fact.  The status quo is simply unacceptable.