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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The military services trained more than 1,000,000 service members, enlisted and officers, and ingrained SAPR offices on all major base installations. The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO), is now the single authority for the sexual assault policy to assure each branch of service complies with DoD policy. [1] In February 2022 ...
SHARP is a proactive U.S. Army program which aims to end sexual harassment and assault in the service. [1] [a] Sexual harassment is a crime in the armed forces, under the UCMJ Article 134 by executive order on 26 January 2022. [2] [3] Those accused of a crime such as sexual harassment,or assault are subject to the UCMJ (or to civil statute).
The number of sexual assaults in the U.S. military is likely significantly higher than official government estimates, according to a new study released on Wednesday. The Department of Defense ...
In 2016, after a major study uncovered widespread sexual harassment and assault in the Canadian armed forces, General Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff, acknowledged: "Harmful sexual behaviour is a real problem in our institution." The US established the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office in 2005, which reports annually.