Strong families mean ready forces.
Troubled families mean trouble.
Just as the military fought discrimination and substance abuse in its ranks, DoD is now turning its guns on domestic violence. A congressionally mandated task force is studying the problem. Klimp and Deborah D. Tucker, executive director of the National Training Center on Domestic and Sexual Violence, Austin, Texas, are the panel's co-chairs. They recently talked about the panel's mission during an interview with American Forces Information Service. As a commander, he said, he had to identify that an incident had occurred, verify its intensity, ensure appropriate action was taken and follow the case to ensure the perpetrator was not guilty of other offenses.