Marine reports sexual assault on the rise, say officials

NORFOLK, VA., the number of sexual assaults, informed the Navy has grown 50 per cent last year, Navy officials said that Wednesday is a sign that a growing number of sailors feel more comfortable reporting an assault and create something you can do on the matter when they do.

The Navy said that it is the pace to finish the fiscal year 2013 this month with about 1,100 allegations of sexual assault. That depends on the 726 sexual assaults recorded in the previous fiscal year.

Rear Admiral Sean Buck, assault prevention top sexual and official response, Navy told reporters at Norfolk Naval Station that the increase was had with officials of the Navy how intensified efforts sailors that sexual assaults are being treated seriously. They also noted that there are many resources available for victims.

A report of the Department of Defense released in may estimated that through all the military branches, 26,000 service members had been sexually assaulted in the previous year. At the same time, only 2.949 sexual assault was officially reported throughout the Department of Defense, according to the report.

The survey said that there were a variety of reasons military didn't report a sexual assault to a military authority. The belief that could not be done if an assault was reported was one of the most common responses between respondents.

These estimates and a string of high-profile sexual military assault cases this year helped to fuel a renewed call to action in Washington to combat sexual assaults, that leaders have marine repeatedly said that it is a priority.

The Navy has suffered a campaign of awareness and prevention of sexual aggression aggressive over the past several years and recently announced changes in the way that sells alcohol based in an effort by curb behaviors that can lead to sexual assault.

"" We would like the needle to move tomorrow or tonight. ""But the feeling is that you have to be able to allow certain programs to put in place for mature, be spoken and will act accordingly, said Buck

Much of the efforts of the Navy focuses on educational campaigns, letting you know what constitutes a sexual assault sailors and where victims can report an assault and find the resources they need. It is led to the sailors more reports of sexual assaults, which Buck is a good thing as the Navy works to eradicate it from the fleet.

"What we try to do is to close that gap between anonymous surveys where sailors say that victims of sexual assaults in the past lead sailors really forward to the report," said Buck. "The initial goal is to close that gap where the number of reports in fact equal to the number of responses to the survey and then finally having two of those numbers reduced to zero."

The Navy released updated figures after Buck in an annual training conference for about 150 Navy sexual assault response coordinators. Coordinators, mostly civilians, are the bases around the world to ensure that victims have access to medical treatment, counseling, legal advice and other support services.

In the last fiscal year, coordinators also trained more than 2,000 commanders in their roles and responsibilities within the program of prevention and response to sexual assault of the Navy.

Buck said that sailors feedback is very positive.

"They are grateful for the attention of leaders and are also very aware of how broad the subject is discussed in Navy of war, from the workplace to the Pentagon, all the way up the hill from the Capitol,", said Buck.

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Brock Vergakis can be contacted at http://www.twitter.com/BrockVergakis

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Nets, Celtics Trade Nearing Completion, Would Send Garnett, Pierce To Brooklyn: REPORTS

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Kevin Garnett, left, and teammate Paul Pierce during the 2013 NBA Playoffs.

BOSTON (AP) — The names that Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge didn't mention said all anyone needed to know about how he views the team's future.

After trading up three spots to get Gonzaga 7-footer Kelly Olynyk in the NBA draft on Thursday night, Ainge described him as a complementary player who will fit in well with Rajon Rondo, Avery Johnson and Jeff Green.

No mention of the team's biggest stars, Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett.

"Can't talk about it," Ainge said when the omission was pointed out to him. But asked if there were any untradeable players on the roster, he said, "If Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were traded, I guess everybody's tradable."

According to a person with knowledge of the talks, the Celtics and Nets were nearing completion of a deal that would send Garnett and Pierce to Brooklyn in exchange for a package that included three first-round draft picks. The person confirmed the talks to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the details were to remain private.

Although the details were not final — the deal cannot be submitted to the NBA office until next month — the Celtics were expected to get Gerald Wallace, the expiring contract of Kris Humphries and one other player while sending Jason Terry to Brooklyn.

The deal would complete the breakup of the core that brought Boston its NBA-record 17th championship in 2008. The process began earlier this week when the Celtics traded coach Doc Rivers to the Los Angeles Clippers for a first-round draft pick in 2015.

Boston and Los Angeles had discussed a deal for Garnett, who has a no-trade clause but was expected to waive it to remain with Rivers. But NBA commissioner David Stern said coaches could not be dealt for active players — as opposed to draft choices — and nixed any future deals between the Celtics and Clippers.

Instead, the Celtics talked to Brooklyn. The inclusion of Pierce, who is due $15 million next season, and the possibility of swapping a rebuilding team for a contender was expected to encourage Garnett to go along.

"That's what Danny wants to do is rebuild," Rivers said from Clippers draft headquarters. "It's sad to see everybody leave Boston. You just want them to go someplace where they have a chance to win, and they have."

After winning five straight Atlantic Division titles, the Celtics tumbled down the Eastern Conference standings this season, dropping all the way to the No. 7 seed before being eliminated by the New York Knicks in the first round. Ainge has said he wanted to avoid the precipitous fall and long rebuilding process in the 1990s that followed the aging of the original Big Three of Larry Bird, Kevin McHale and Robert Parish — his teammates on the teams that won it all in 1984 and '86.

The Celtics were no closer to a title — and in the midst of the longest championship drought in franchise history — when Ainge arrived in 2003. He rode them into the draft lottery, and when the ping pong balls failed to deliver a star, he traded for Garnett and Ray Allen to join Pierce in a New Big Three that won the NBA title in its first year and returned to the finals two years later.

But the team regressed after losing in the 2010 finals in seven games, and in the first-round loss to the Knicks this spring, Pierce and Garnett looked worn down. That convinced Rivers that his future was elsewhere, and Garnett and Pierce aren't far behind.

Instead, the Celtics begin their rebuilding around Rondo, the one player Ainge said he was not looking to trade. They also have Bradley joining him in the backcourt and Green to fill Pierce's role, and now Olynyk to join Jared Sullinger at power forward after Garnett's gone.

"I think we're in a much better place than we were when I got here 10 years ago," Ainge said. "Our objective is to do it less painfully and to do it with more speed."

Ainge sent the No. 16 pick and two future second-rounders to the Dallas Mavericks to get Olynyk, who was fifth in voting for the Wooden Award. Olynyk averaged 17.8 points and 7.3 rebounds while shooting 63 percent from the field while leading Gonzaga to a 32-3 season.

Ainge said Olynyk was athletic, playing quarterback for his high school football team.

"I don't know too many players who played quarterback in high school as a 7-footer," Ainge said.

The Celtics entered the night without a second-round pick, but they bought the No. 53 overall selection from the Indiana Pacers for cash and used it to pick center Colton Iverson from Colorado State. A person with knowledge of the deal confirmed the transaction Thursday night on condition of anonymity because it was not yet official.

Iverson is a 7-foot, 255-pound center who started his career at Minnesota. Last season, after transferring to Colorado State, he led the team in scoring with 14.2 points and rebounding at 9.8.

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AP Basketball Writer Brian Mahoney contributed to this story from New York and AP Sports Writer Michael Marot contributed from Indianapolis.