The Pentagon reveals a record number of sexual assaults in the #USArmy.
An estimated 35,875 active duty personnel, both women and men, have been sexually assaulted in the past year.
Sexual assaults in the US military have reached record levels, with more active-duty members reporting these crimes in the past year since the Pentagon began tracking reports 15 years ago, Defense Department officials said Thursday. .
According to the results of a new survey released the same day, an estimated 35,875 active duty personnel, both women and men, have been sexually assaulted, a sharp increase from the 20,500 victims among active duty personnel found in 2018, the last time the survey was conducted.
"These numbers are tragic and extremely disappointing," Elizabeth Foster, executive director of the Pentagon's Office of Force Resilience, told reporters.
"These events not only impact on an individual level, but also degrade our readiness and ability for the Department to carry out our mission," she added.
Of the affected members, 16,600 were men and 19,300 women, these being the most likely to be victims. Roughly one in 12 active duty women (8.4%) reported being assaulted or subjected to an assault attempt in the past year, as opposed to 1.5% of men who reported the same, the Report reveals
Pentagon Annual on Sexual Assaults in the Military for 2021.
The increase in the prevalence of aggression among women since the 2018 report is more than 35%, and the rate has more than doubled among men.
Nearly one in three active duty women, 29%, have reported sexual harassment at work, and one in four said they have been assaulted. At the same time, the reporting rate has decreased so that only one in five assaults are now reported, compared to one in three in 2018.
After establishing the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assaults in the Armed Forces last year, the Pentagon began implementing new procedures to deal with the crisis, including establishing special victims' units to handle sexual crimes.
For her part, the chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel and California congresswoman, Jackie Speier, promised a hearing in the coming weeks and to bring "the watchful eye of Congress" to "address this shame and crisis national," suggesting a direct causal link between the Department of Defense's failure to address the rise in sexual misconduct and its inability to meet recruitment goals.
An estimated 35,875 active duty personnel, both women and men, have been sexually assaulted in the past year.
Sexual assaults in the US military have reached record levels, with more active-duty members reporting these crimes in the past year since the Pentagon began tracking reports 15 years ago, Defense Department officials said Thursday. .
According to the results of a new survey released the same day, an estimated 35,875 active duty personnel, both women and men, have been sexually assaulted, a sharp increase from the 20,500 victims among active duty personnel found in 2018, the last time the survey was conducted.
"These numbers are tragic and extremely disappointing," Elizabeth Foster, executive director of the Pentagon's Office of Force Resilience, told reporters.
"These events not only impact on an individual level, but also degrade our readiness and ability for the Department to carry out our mission," she added.
Of the affected members, 16,600 were men and 19,300 women, these being the most likely to be victims. Roughly one in 12 active duty women (8.4%) reported being assaulted or subjected to an assault attempt in the past year, as opposed to 1.5% of men who reported the same, the Report reveals
Pentagon Annual on Sexual Assaults in the Military for 2021.
The increase in the prevalence of aggression among women since the 2018 report is more than 35%, and the rate has more than doubled among men.
Nearly one in three active duty women, 29%, have reported sexual harassment at work, and one in four said they have been assaulted. At the same time, the reporting rate has decreased so that only one in five assaults are now reported, compared to one in three in 2018.
After establishing the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assaults in the Armed Forces last year, the Pentagon began implementing new procedures to deal with the crisis, including establishing special victims' units to handle sexual crimes.
For her part, the chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel and California congresswoman, Jackie Speier, promised a hearing in the coming weeks and to bring "the watchful eye of Congress" to "address this shame and crisis national," suggesting a direct causal link between the Department of Defense's failure to address the rise in sexual misconduct and its inability to meet recruitment goals.
The #USArmy will be permitted to increase its purchase of Armoured Multi-Purpose Vehicles (AMPV) following the provision of around 200 in-service M113 armoured personnel carriers to Ukraine to aid Kyiv in its suicide crusade against Russia.
Thousands of people would have been victims of human trafficking by private contractors of the #USArmy to work on military bases located in the Middle East, revealed a journalistic investigation carried out by NBC News, in collaboration with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) , The Washington Post and Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.
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The #USArmy mistakenly put hundreds of participants in its National Guard and Reserve recruiting programs onto a criminal watchlist during an investigation into fraudulent recruitment bonuses, it revealed on Thursday.
Some 1,900 names were placed on the FBI’s Interstate Identification Index, a database of individual criminal histories which facilitates information sharing between federal and state law enforcement, in the course of a four-year investigation by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division into fraudulent payouts for recruitment referrals.
Recruiters were supposed to receive $2,000 for every new person they signed up, but by the time the program came under scrutiny, it was found that many were taking payments for recruits they’d never met. While the probe punished 286 of those people with administrative sanctions and 137 were prosecuted, hundreds more were found to have committed no offense - and “proper procedures were not always followed” to clear their names afterwards.
CID has investigated over 900 cases, finding more than half required some sort of correction to the record. It hopes to have fixed all the records by the end of the year.
Unable to pass background checks, affected individuals could not get promoted within the military or obtain certain jobs outside, nor could they purchase firearms or obtain security clearances. While the service has encouraged anyone who thinks they were affected to reach out, CID personnel chief declined to say whether victims would be financially compensated for whatever misfortunes befell them subsequent to the probe.
CID Director Gregory Ford told Stars & Stripes that while his agency does not know why the names were not removed from the III when they were found to be uninvolved in the fraud scheme, nor would the ongoing review determine what led to the mixup.
But after the Army missed its 2022 recruitment goals by 15,000 troops, the worst shortfall since scrapping the military draft, the National Guard is reportedly considering reestablishing recruitment bonuses.
Officials have attributed the lack of interest to increased focus on suicides and sexual harassment in the military, the vaccine mandate, and financial concerns.
Some 1,900 names were placed on the FBI’s Interstate Identification Index, a database of individual criminal histories which facilitates information sharing between federal and state law enforcement, in the course of a four-year investigation by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division into fraudulent payouts for recruitment referrals.
Recruiters were supposed to receive $2,000 for every new person they signed up, but by the time the program came under scrutiny, it was found that many were taking payments for recruits they’d never met. While the probe punished 286 of those people with administrative sanctions and 137 were prosecuted, hundreds more were found to have committed no offense - and “proper procedures were not always followed” to clear their names afterwards.
CID has investigated over 900 cases, finding more than half required some sort of correction to the record. It hopes to have fixed all the records by the end of the year.
Unable to pass background checks, affected individuals could not get promoted within the military or obtain certain jobs outside, nor could they purchase firearms or obtain security clearances. While the service has encouraged anyone who thinks they were affected to reach out, CID personnel chief declined to say whether victims would be financially compensated for whatever misfortunes befell them subsequent to the probe.
CID Director Gregory Ford told Stars & Stripes that while his agency does not know why the names were not removed from the III when they were found to be uninvolved in the fraud scheme, nor would the ongoing review determine what led to the mixup.
But after the Army missed its 2022 recruitment goals by 15,000 troops, the worst shortfall since scrapping the military draft, the National Guard is reportedly considering reestablishing recruitment bonuses.
Officials have attributed the lack of interest to increased focus on suicides and sexual harassment in the military, the vaccine mandate, and financial concerns.