Military report: Young women on bases, sailors on ships at greatest risk for sexual assault
WASHINGTON – Young women troops at training bases and sailors assigned to ships faced the highest risk of sexual assault in the military, according a report released Friday by the Pentagon.
The release of the report has been delayed for months as the nonpartisan RAND Corp. and the Pentagon sparred over its findings and how to present them. RAND relied on data from fiscal year 2014, including responses from 170,000 active-duty troops to its survey questions; more than half a million were asked.
The report estimated the risk of sexual assault for troops assigned to each of the military's installations based on reported attacks. The assaults may have occurred off the base, and the assailant may have been a member of the military or a civilian. The report contains several other caveats, including the age of the data, noting that there is no guarantee that patterns persist four years later, and that it does not necessarily represent the risk today for troops.
Nonetheless, the report found commonalities among victims, and where they are assigned by the military, that continue today. For example, the factors that put victims at high risk of sexual assault – youth, not being married, and having lower rank – correspond to their assignment to large training bases and ships. Those assignments and living conditions aboard ships, for example, have not changed greatly since 2014.
"A large proportion of all sexual assaults occur at a relatively few large installations for each of the services," according to the report. "The Army and Marine Corps, for instance, each have installations where we estimate there were more than 500 sexual assaults of women and men in 2014."
The Pentagon did not release details about each base studied in the RAND report.
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