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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 September 11 attacks were the deadliest terrorist attacks in human history, causing the deaths of 2,996 people, including 2,977 victims and 19 hijackers who committed murder–suicide. Thousands [ a] more were injured, [ 3][ 4] and long-term health effects have arisen as a consequence of the attacks. New York City took the brunt of the ...
Passed the Senate on March 10, 2014 ( Roll Call Vote 62: 97-0) The Victims Protection Act of 2014 ( S. 1917) is a bill intended to help protect the victims of sexual assault in the military. [1] The bill would allow victims to give a preferences as to whether they would prefers their cases take place in the military or in the civilian justice ...
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 ...
Military sexual trauma is used by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and defined in federal law [2] as "psychological trauma, which in the judgment of a VA mental health professional, resulted from a physical assault of a sexual nature, battery of a sexual nature, or sexual harassment which occurred while the Veteran was serving on active duty, active duty for training, or ...