This country is broken in so many ways.

It's not important? Those rapists should not be prosecuted? Only a tiny fraction of rape victims report or even admit they were assaulted.

I did not think it was that high.

I thought you were saying it was small. Is that number you cited the total armed forces or those being treated by the VA?

all of the non-reported ones, including assaults on women.

This population includes veterans of all eras.

Still, even out of that larger population, that is a STAGGERING number!

they come into contact with here and abroad. The world must change regarding assaults of all persons, men, women, children.

However there is an extra hurdle in the military. In civilian life, one reports a crime to police. In the military, you report it to your commanding officer, who is sometimes the rapist. He makes the decision whether charges should be pursued.

Not necessarily. It can be reported directly to the military police. I don't know if that works out any better or not. It's been about 17 years since I got out.

I have no personal experience in the matter, but there is legislation seeking to remove decisions from the chain of the command.

the officer corps, that over privileged sump of waste.

Just fucking awful and shameful. I can't imagine how high it would be if all assaults were reported by male and female victims.

I will contact the congress critter.

that Boxer and other politicians are having to point out that men are indeed victims of sexual assault in order to get people to pay attention and hopefully do something. Boxer could have used the statistics of women, which is a much much higher percentage, but in our sexist society it may not have had enough influence to get peoples attention.

And frankly that's why I wrote the title as I did. I'm well aware of the way that women are devalued and how many dismiss sexual assault for that reason. However, in the survey recently released of unreported assaults, men actually comprised about 53% of victims. That has to do with the fact there are so many more men than women in the military. A military woman's chances of being assaulted, however, are exponentially higher than a man's. A much higher percentage of women are assaulted than men, even those the raw numbers of assaults of males is slightly higher.

I dont have the statistics on hand, but when I worked for a domestic violence center there was a large amount of men who never reported being assaulted because of the cultural taboo of men admitting abuse. I hope thats changes a lot (its been a while).