A sailor, harassed by her XO, alleges her superiors didn’t intervene
Is ‘see something, say something’ a do-nothing policy?
By Geoff Ziezulewicz
Sep 6, 05:33 AM
(Jacki Belker/Staff)
On May 10, the Navy quietly fired the second-in-command of a Florida-based training unit after an investigation found he sexually harassed female subordinates.
Witnesses recalled how Cmdr. Richard Martinez, then-executive officer of the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Jacksonville, told a female petty officer to remove her mask during a November evaluation debrief so that he could see her “pretty face,” or words to that effect, part of a “pattern of making unprofessional and inappropriate comments during the performance evaluation debriefs.”
That same month, Martinez told another female E-6, Petty Officer 1st Class Stanley, that she made her job “look so sexy” during her eval, according to a copy of the investigation obtained by Navy Times. Stanley is a pseudonym as Navy Times does not identify victims of sexual offenses.
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2022/09/06/a-sailor-harassed-by-her-xo-alleges-her-superiors-didnt-intervene/
