Florida Sexual Harassment Policy

Q: The advisory group researched and received briefings on the policy restricting special operations aviation positions. It concluded the policy unjustifiably excludes qualified women. DACOWITS also recommended Cohen issue a policy statement on sexual harassment, equal opportunity and gender discrimination, and to publicly emphasize his commitment to that policy. Is that true Committee members found military women perceived reporting incidents of sexual harassment as futile, or worse, and possibly resulting in retaliation?

A: Continuing concerns include gender discrimination, leadership commitment to the sexual harassment policy, child care, women's health and violence against military women. The committee identified dual military couples and the impact of operations and personnel tempos on quality of life as two issues it needs to document further. Adult female turtles will not emerge from the water if humans are present. When the mother finds a suitable area, she uses her flippers to dig a hole and deposits the eggs. She then covers them with sand and returns to the quiet depths of the sea. As in

some foreign countries where sea turtle eggs are considered a delicacy to humans, raccoons and hogs find them irresistible to their palate as well. They dig up nests and eat the eggs. The difficulty doesn't stop there, however. Once the babies emerge, they become prey to sea birds, ghost crabs and fish. Being lunch is not there only concern. Those that get this far may become disoriented by bright inland lights or the glow from those lights, that draw them away from the ocean. Of all highly critical nesting habitat for the Atlantic Loggerhead Sea Turtle, 88 percent is on the east coast of Florida. Unfortunately, about 90 percent of all hatchlings do not survive.