THREAD (my last one for today I promise, hopefully): A lot of news today out of the Army's latest report about the investigation of Vanessa Guillén's case.

Let's review, shall we?

The Army confirmed that Guillén was being sexually harassed by a "superior noncommissioned officer in her unit."

We updated our scoop from this morning on that with more details. Read that here: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-confirms-vanessa-guillen-harassment/

A FORSCOM press release today said Guillén "informally reported that she was sexually harassed on two occasions, and in both instances her supervisor failed to report the harassment, and other leaders failed to take appropriate action."

The Army says they still have no evidence of Spc. Aaron Robinson — the man accused of killing Guillén — harassing her.

They did, however, find evidence that Robinson harassed another female specialist at Fort Hood between April and September 2019

In the report the Army redacted the name of the NCO who harassed Vanessa — something her family said "troubled" them, through their attorney.

"It’s heartbreaking and frustrating for all of us,” Natalie Khawam said. “So much failure, from the commanders down.”

(The Army said they would not release the names of anyone implicated in the report who is at the battalion level and below.)

Which brings us to...

As a result of the report today + the Fort Hood report last year, a total of 21 officers and NCOs are being relieved, receiving GOMORs, and/or being referred for further disciplinary action. https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-fort-hood-21-leaders-guillen/

Several of the people included in that group of 21 are from the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, Vanessa's unit.

One soldier told the investigators that the 3CR was the "most undisciplined organization I have work[ed] in in my entire career."

Another said the regiment's SHARP program was "a joke."

“[W]e have known predators still coming to work as though they’ve never done anything,” the soldier said. “The people who file reports frequently have their lives upended and destroyed due to rank differences.”

There are a lot of other details in the report, which is laid out in a kind of chronological timeline of events and provides a much clearer picture of what happened before and after Guillén went missing.

Read the full thing here: https://taskandpurpose.com/news/new-army-report-vanessa-guillen/

We'll be getting into more of those details on Monday, so stay tuned. And if there are any in particular that stand out to you, please let me know.

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