As partisan rancor continues on the Hill, one group of lawmakers joined forces this week to speak out against harassment of women in the Marine Corps. Reps. Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) and Annie Kuster (D-NH) spearheaded a letter to Defense Secretary James Mattis urging him to 
take action, including authorizing another investigation into current and former Marines soliciting and posting nude photos of their female colleagues on Facebook. Thomas James Brennan , who broke the story, reports that some of the women were followed and photographed without their knowledge. The Facebook posts drew
thousands of comments, some urging sexual violence, such as:
“take her out back and pound her out,” as well as graphic suggestions, like penetrating women in the “butt. And throat. And ears. Both of them. Video it though…for science.”
According to Brennan, the photos first appeared within a month of women being assigned to the first Marine infantry unit.