A very short report (26 pages)! Absolute numbers are withheld in official news release!
Given the total number of active duty personnel of over 450,000 it is surprising that about 29,000 (or at least 6%) reported a sexual assault in one year. That seems to be high.
How can so many male soldiers be sexually assaulted? Where they assaulted by females and they did not like it? 😊
One also has to carefully distinguish between reported incidents and incidents disclosed during a survey. It appears only about 1 in 4 incidents are reported.
It is also striking that the report is silent on the perpetrators. E.g. how many females are perpetrators?
"The prevalence of sexual assault in the active-duty force declined compared with levels last measured in 2021, marking the first decrease in nearly a decade.
The figures, released yesterday as part of the Fiscal Year 2023 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military, reflect significant progress on reducing unwanted sexual contact amid a series of Defense Department reforms aimed at tackling the issue.
Rates of unwanted sexual contact affecting active-component women decreased from 8.4% to 6.8% between 2021 and 2023. Rates of unwanted sexual contact affecting active-component men appeared to also decrease from 1.5% to 1.3% but the change was not statistically significant.
In total, nearly 7,000 fewer service members experienced sexual assault in 2023 than in 2021, according to DOD estimates. ..."
From the report:
"... Based on these rates, the Department estimates that about 29,061 active duty Service members (15,201 active duty women and 13,860 active duty men) experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact in the year prior to being surveyed, which is a decrease of 19 percent from the 35,875 active duty Service
members (19,255 active duty women and 16,620 active duty men) estimated to have experienced some form of unwanted sexual contact in the 2021 survey.
A greater proportion of Service members reported their incident of sexual assault in 2023. In Fiscal Year 2023, the Military Services received 7,266 sexual assault reports from active duty Service members for an incident they experienced during military service. Based on 2023 survey prevalence rates, this indicates a reporting rate of 25 percent. In other words, about 1 in 4 Service members reported their sexual assault to a Department of Defense authority. This estimate is up
from the 1 in 5 Service members estimated to have reported their incident of sexual assault in Fiscal Year 2021. ... "
Credits: Report: Sexual assault in US military declines for first time in 8 years, from 8,924 to 8,515
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