The Associated Press managed to extract from the Department of Veterans Affairs an “accounting” it had done of the impact of sexual assaults in the military.

The lead: “New government figures underscore the staggering long-term consequences of military sexual assaults: More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness linked to the abuse, and 4,000 sought disability benefits.”

In the final six months of 2011, an average of 248 veterans per month filed for disability benefits related to sexual trauma. The VA said the numbers increased by about a third, to 334 veterans per month in 2012, which officials attributed in part to better screening for the ongoing trauma associated with sexual assault.

Of those who filed in 2012, about two-thirds were women and nearly a third were men.

A Pentagon report released earlier this month (PDF) estimated that 80-90% of assaults go unreported — 26,000 suspected, 3,400 reported in 2012. Some 6.1% of active duty women reported some kind of unwanted sexual contact — up from 4.4% the year before. The number for men was 1.2%, about the same as 2011.