After days of witnesses who described sexual misconduct by Sgt. Maj. Gene McKinney, the wife of the Army's former top enlisted man testified that he wouldn't mistreat female soldiers.

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During two hours of testimony Tuesday, Wilhemina McKinney told jurors that her husband was a dedicated leader, though she didn't directly contradict his accusers' stories.Wilhemina McKinney has sat behind her husband in court each day, listening impassively as the six women testified that McKinney harassed or intimated them for sex. One of the six claims McKinney forced her to have sex in McKinney's home while his wife was out of town.

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