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August 14, 2024 at 11:32 AM. By Joseph Ax. (Reuters) - The number of sexual assaults in the U.S. military is likely significantly higher than official government estimates, according to a new ...
The Costs of War Project report comes a year after a Pentagon report found that reports of sexual assault at the nation’s three military academies rose more than 18% from 2021 to 2022, hitting a ...
Reports of sexual assaults in the US military dropped for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a new Pentagon report released on Thursday, breaking what had been an upward trend in ...
Sexual assault in the United States armed forces is an ongoing issue which has received extensive media coverage in the past. A 2012 Pentagon survey found that approximately 26,000 women and men were sexually assaulted that year; of those, only 3,374 cases were reported. [ 2] In 2013, a new Pentagon report found that 5,061 troops reported cases ...
In 1917 World War I Army nurses Clara Ayres and Helen Wood became the first female members of the U.S. military killed in the line of duty. They were killed on May 20, 1917, while with Base Hospital #12 aboard USS Mongolia en route to France. The ship's crew fired the deck guns during a practice drill, and one of the guns exploded, spewing ...
Pentagon officials are cautiously optimistic that an overall decline in reported sexual assaults among active-duty service members and the military academies suggests that leaders are finally ...
The bill would improve the medical care that victims of military sexual assault receive. [ 19 ] The Act shifts the cost of the medical treatment and care to the veteran's private insurance plan [ 20 ] and the Veterans Administration now requires joining the Choice program as a condition of receiving medical care, [ 21 ] although this change has ...
September 1, 2022 at 7:12 AM. WASHINGTON (AP) — Reports of sexual assaults across the U.S. military jumped by 13% last year, driven by significant increases in the Army and the Navy as bases ...