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This photo taken Jan. 26, 2014 shows Catherine Fisher of Australia speaking during an interview at her home in Tokyo. An Associated Press investigation into the military’s handling of sexual assaults in Japan has found a pattern of random and inconsistent judgments in which most offenders are not incarcerated. Instead, commanders have ordered “nonjudicial punishments” that ranged from docked pay to a letter of reprimand. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

AP probe: Handling of military sex-crimes chaotic

By YURI KAGEYAMA and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

FILE - This Jan. 29, 2014 file photo shows parts of more than 1,000 summaries of sex-crime cases involving U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan, which The Associated Press obtained following Freedom of Information Act requests filed with the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Naval Criminal Investigative Service, displayed at the AP office in Tokyo. an Associated Press investigation into the military’s handling of sexual assaults in Japan has found a pattern of random and inconsistent judgments in which most offenders are not incarcerated. Instead, commanders have ordered “nonjudicial punishments” that ranged from docked pay to a letter of reprimand. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)

AP findings on US military sex crimes in Japan

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This photo taken Jan. 31, 2104 shows Tina Wilson, who was a victim of sexual assault while serving in the Navy, outside of her brothers home in Del City, OK. Wilson left the Navy in 2009 and is now pursuing a degree in Sports Science at Rose State College. An Associated Press investigation into the military’s handling of sexual assaults in Japan has found a pattern of random and inconsistent judgments in which most offenders are not incarcerated. Instead, commanders have ordered “nonjudicial punishments” that ranged from docked pay to a letter of reprimand. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

Documents reveal chaotic military sex-abuse record

By YURI KAGEYAMA and RICHARD LARDNER - Associated Press

US official: Snowden leaks lead to Pentagon change

By KIMBERLY DOZIER and STEPHEN BRAUN - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014 photo, Hiroshi Ashitomi, a retired welfare case worker, shows a protest map of Henoko where the U.S. and Japan agreed to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma and plan to build an airstrip in the water dugongs and other sea creatures inhabit at his tent on the beach in Nago, Okinawa. For 10 years, He has been coming to the beach near his Okinawa home every day to sit. He loves nothing more than the sea around the island, the rare sightings of dugongs and sea turtles, the tan-colored sand and the crags out by the breakwater. Like many Okinawans, including leading politicians and media, Ashitomi opposes a plan to move the controversial Marine base to a less crowded part of the southern Japanese island. The proposed location for the new airstrip - Ashitomi’s favorite beach - is the epicenter of the opposition. (AP Photo/Eric Talmadge)

Plan to move base highlights US problem on Okinawa

By ERIC TALMADGE - Associated Press

Tribute honors 4 generations of Good Iron soldiers

By ELOISE OGDEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 23, 2011 file photograph, Afghan detainees, seen through a mesh wire fence, prepare for noon prayers inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has begun the process of releasing three dozen prisoners, officials said Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, despite U.S. protests that they are highly dangerous, the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries ahead of the year-end withdrawal of most international combat troops. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Afghanistan to release ‘dangerous’ prisoners

By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD - Associated Press

FILE - This file photo released by Universal Pictures shows Taylor Kitsch, left, as Michael Murphy and Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell in a scene from the film, “Lone Survivor.&quot; The Navy SEAL drama earned $37.8 million in its first weekend of wide release. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Gregory R. Peters, File)

HARPER: A coordinated media assault on a pro-military film

By Christopher Harper

US military deaths in Afghanistan at 2,168

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Nago city Mayor Susumu Inamine and his wife Ritsuko cast their ballots in the mayoral election in Nago, on the southern Japanese island of Okinawa, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. The small-town mayoral election is being closely watched from Washington to Tokyo as a referendum on long-delayed plans to move a U.S. air base to the community of 62,000 people. Inamine, who opposes the move, faces pro-relocation candidate Bunshin Suematsu in the election. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) JAPAN OUT, CREDIT MANDATORY

Japan says US base in Okinawa is only solution

By YURIKO NAGANO - Associated Press

A soldier places roses on grave stones at Section 60 on Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, Monday, May 27, 2013. Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans are buried in Section 60. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

U.S. military deaths in Afghanistan hit 2,164

Associated Press

White House press secretary Jay Carney listens at left, as White House National Economic Council Chairman Gene Sperling speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. With Congress back, the Senate is expected to work on a three-month extension of benefits for the long-term unemployed. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

U.S. walks tightrope by handing arms to Shiite-led Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Chilling: In 2007, explorers in the oil-rich Arctic dropped two miniature submarines more than 2 miles beneath the ice at the North Pole to plant a Russian flag on the ocean floor. (Associated Press)

U.S. Cold War rivals China, Russia step up challenges to Obama’s Asia pivot

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, New York Democrat (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Congress creates a legislative fortress for military sex-assault policy

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

In 2001, a Chinese J-8 fighter crashed into a U.S. EP-3 (above) surveillance aircraft flying some 70 miles off the Chinese coast, setting off a crisis for new President George W. Bush. (U.S. Navy)

Inside the Ring: China targeting U.S. spy flights amid escalating tensions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

The American flag flying at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812 inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner," but the war itself inspired little else. (Smithsonian Institution/National Museum of American History)

OWENS: The feminist campaign to make weaklings of America’s warriors

By Mackubin Thomas Owens

A crew member of a U.S. Navy Seahawk helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington looks at the devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan near the coastal town of Tanawan in the central Philippines on Sunday, Nov. 17. 2013. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

Aid missions boost U.S. troops’ image, readiness

By Eric Talmadge - Associated Press