The DoD IG system consistently fails in its role to protect military members from reprisal and fails to impartially investigate complaint allegations which are brought forward at high risk by members of the DoD. Join us in demanding that the United States Congress disband the DoD IG and create a new Inspector General wholly independent from the Department of Defense.

As advocates for service members who have served anywhere from 3 to 30+ years in the military, we’ve helped hundreds of people who have suffered from a corrupt, often apathetic, and sometimes even abusive Department of Defense Inspector General system.

After over two years of advocacy for over 300 members of the DoD who are victims of numerous violations of federal law, DoD policy, and service regulations, we conclude the following:

1.     Personnel assigned to positions in IG billets are inadequately trained/equipped to carry out their duties,

2.     IGs within the DoD cannot exercise true independence since they are nearly always subordinate to the commander of the organization they oversee, and,

3.     Due to the low likelihood of success married with the high personal/professional risk a complainant assumes, there is veritably zero incentive to file an IG complaint.

Not only are there no incentives to file IG complaints, in fact, the risks of seeking justice through the IG as currently organized as a subordinate element within the DoD far outweigh any potential benefits. These risks include reprisal and retaliation, ostracism, a total violation of one’s personal and professional privacy, isolation, embarrassment, and deteriorating physical and mental health.

Because the body charged to inspect the DoD is a subordinate element in the DoD, perpetrators are not held accountable and, more importantly, no substantive recompense is afforded to victims. Even in the rare circumstances in which an allegation is substantiated, the amount of time required for that substantiation (in many cases, years after the offense) means that no meaningful recompense can be offered.

United States Congress: We know you care about your uniformed Service Members; it is now time to demonstrate that care! No one who serves in the United States Military should fear to file a complaint if they have been a victim of a crime, harassment, bullying, abuse, etc.

Sign now to demand that the United States Congress protect United States Service Members.