I disagree; sailors aren't more comfortable with reporting incidents, the military is lacking leadership at the higher levels, and it is now manifesting itself at lower levels in the form of bad conduct Also, the moral standards that used to be upheld by society in general, and the in the military in particular (in the form of recruiting standards and UCMJ rules) have been so eroded in recent years that there is a larger amount of bad apples than in the past.
I bring up your point to the sexual assault officials every chance I get. They claim the assaults were the same as before. Based on their reasoning every single women in the military was sexually assaulted and most didn’t bother reporting it.
I call BS because in my experience some women will file a complaint against you for stupid stuff so I can’t see them just ignoring an assault.