Vanessa Guillen at Fort Hood, Texas last year. If people don't have trust, then you don't really have a SHARP program, because people aren't really going to report."īuccino said Army leaders have felt pressure to rebuild trust since the death of Spc. "You have to have trust at the lowest level. Joe Buccino, the innovation officer for the 18th Airborne Corps and a Dragon's Lair organizer. "With the SHARP program, you have to have buy-in," said Col. It's a "Shark Tank'' style competition where the Army typically invites rank-and-file soldiers to submit suggestions to solve technical or logistic challenges.īut this time, instead of focusing on tanks or computers, the Corps asked for ideas to improve its sexual harassment and assault response program - which the Army calls SHARP. So in February, she pitched an idea to the 18th Airborne Corps: use virtual reality to get soldiers to be proactive.ĭudley was one of seven finalists at the 18th Airborne Corps' "Dragon's Lair" event. She said other soldiers were nearby and could have intervened to stop the crime. "You know, if someone comes up - male or female -and says, 'Hey, I feel like I've been sexually harassed,' usually what happens is like, 'Maybe you're taking it wrong.'"Įarly in her Army career, Dudley, a Fort Bragg linguist, helped support a friend who was sexually assaulted. "That is the goal right there: empathy, because that's an issue," she said. Shameka Dudley wants to show soldiers what it's like to walk in somebody else's boots.
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