...imagine how many women DON'T report having been raped.
We all know their response:Shut up Ms. Soldier or YOU will give the military a bad name.
Reading Lt. Dyer's account of her ordeal gave me the creeps.
If that's the way it's handled when going through Chain of Command, I have to surmise that many women avoid the hassle and remain silent.
I know, Im using the famous Peggy Noonan technique of "reporting".
"I wasn't there and I don't know any of the people involved but I can imagine they felt (fill in blank) and I'd say they were thinking (fill in blank) so it's true." http://hometown.aol.com/milesfdn/myhomepage/Interpersonal Violence Associated with the Military:
Facts and Findings
The Estimates:
Recent estimates suggest that domestic violence in the military rose from 18.6 per 1000 in 1990 to 25.6 per 1000 in 1996 .-FY90-96, Spouse & Child Maltreatment, Department of Defense
~ In FY 2001, 18,000 reported cases of spouse abuse occured involving military personnel. Eleven thousand were substantiated, rate of substantiated aggression of 16.5 per 1000.-Symposium on DV Prevention Research, 2002
~ The predominant type of substantiated spouse abuse is physical abuse. Eighty-five percent of the abuse is physical abuse.-Final Report on Spouse Abuse, Caliber Associates, 1996;
~Of the substantiated cases in 2001, 57% involved mild abuse; 36%, moderate; and 7%, severe.-Symposium on DV Prevention Research, 2002
~Offenders are somewhat less likely to be promoted and somewhat more likely to be separated from the Service. The fear of negative consequences is probably out of proportion to the true impact.-Abuse Victims Study, DoD, 1994
~Seventy-five to eighty-four percent of alleged offenders are honorably discharged.-Abuse Victims Study, DoD, 1994
~Although data are hard to obtain, it is apparent that relatively few military personnel are prosecuted or administratively sanctioned on charges stemming from domestic violence.-Initial Report of the Defense Task Force on Domestic Violence, 2001
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-Department of Defense Sexual Harassment Survey, 1995
~Thirty percent of female veterans in a recent survey reported rape or attempted rape during active duty.
~Thirty-seven percent of women who reported a rape or attempted rape had been raped more than once; fourteen percent of the victims reported having been gang raped.
~Three fourths of the female veterans who were raped did not report the incident to a ranking officer. One third didn't know how to; and one fifith believed that rape was to be expected in the military. Women who served in Gulf War I were the only group that did not consider rape to be an expected part of military life.
...rest at link