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Browse or download the DoD’s 2012 Annual Report on Sexual Assault in the Military


By SB Anderson

Department of DefenseAnnual Report on SexualAssaultin the Military -- FY 2012New data from the Pentagon shows a 6% increase in sexual assaults in the military between 2011 and 2012 — 3,374 vs. 3,192 the year before.

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.

Today’s release of the annual Department of Defense report on assaults, based on anonymous surveys, comes just days after an Air Force officer with responsibility for an assault prevention unit was arrested in Virginia on sexual assault charges, sparking outrage and fallout in Congress, at the Pentagon and across the country. There have been gobs of stories on the latter incident, as well as the reaction, so we’ll focus instead on making the new report available for review.

Both volumes can be browsed (or downloaded) by visiting our page here, or clicking on the image upper right.

Note: Earlier reports back to 2004 are available here.

Military sexual assaults since 2004

Military sexual assaults since 2004. SOURCE: Department of Defense

One in five females in military have faced unwanted sexual contact, new survey reveals


By SB Anderson

Some 22% of women in the U.S. military said they have been victims of unwanted sexual contact by someone in the service, and the issues seems to be most significant in the Marine Corps, where 30% — nearly 1 in 3 — women reported unwanted advances.  Among men, by comparison, 3.3% said they were victims. 

The data is from a final version of a major global, anonymous survey of military personnel done every three years by the Department of Defense, TRICARE and others. About 40,000 participated in the survey, which was done in 2011 but was not made public until a few days ago.

The survey is exhaustive and covers many issues, including substance abuse, stress and mental health, including post-traumatic stress, depression, gender issues, suicide and traumatic brain injury.

Tables below are from the report, which is available in full as a PDF on in our DocumentCloud folder.  (The previous report from 2008 is available here.)

WOMEN

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By SB Anderson

Advisors to the Obama and Romney campaigns — both of them former undersecretaries of defense — debated defense-related issues on Thursday night in Washington. You can watch a replay of the debate, part of the annual Military Reporters and Editors Association conference, on C-SPAN (click on the image). The event was co-sponsored by the Medill National Security Journalism Initiative, of which On The Beat is a part. 

Where the drones are: U.S. military drone locations mapped


By SB Anderson

The research project Public Intelligence has assembled a map and list of dozens of current and planned areas with Department of Defense drone activity, including the type of craft.  ”What exact missions are performed at those locations, however, is not clear,” Danger Room reports. “Some bases might be used as remote cockpits to control the robotic aircraft overseas, some for drone pilot training. Others may also serve as imagery analysis depots.”

Wired notes that 12 of the locations are for “Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles, which can be armed.”

Secrecy News, meantime, cites another report that lists 110 potential drone bases, vs. the 88 in the Public Intelligence report. Here’s that DOD report to Congress. (PDF)

In April, the Electronic Frontier Foundation released a similar map of public and private sector drone operations.