[fella]

•Charts in Volume I of the 2013 SAPRO report showing gender breakdowns of completed investigations reveal that 12% of actual unrestricted reports and more than 13% of restricted (confidential) reports were filed by military men. Only 2% of "subjects" (alleged perpetrators) were women, meaning that 98% were men. [8]

•Anu Bhagwati, Executive director of the Service Women Action Network (SWAN) conceded this point in referencing the previous year's SAPRO report for 2012, analyzing 2011 data. Said Bhagwati in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, "The DoD estimates that 19,300 sexual assaults occurred in 2010, and that while 8,600 victims were female, 10,700 were male."

•Speaking for the Protect Our Defenders group at the same hearing, Brian K. Lewis, former Petty Officer 3rd Class, USN, cited the same estimated figures and added, "To translate this into percentages, about 56 percent of estimated victims in our military are men." [9]

•A line graph in Volume II shows survey results on questions asked to determine the "Percent of Active-Duty Members Who Have Experienced Unwanted Sexual Contact, by Gender." The graph shows no change for women (32% in both 2010 and 2012), but a significant increase among men reporting "Unwanted Touching," from 31% in 2010 to 51% in 2012. This is a 64.5% increase among men, but it appears just above the highly-misleading claim that there were "no statistically significant differences for women or men" in the years highlighted. [10]

[snoringbear]

Well, lets keep in mind that this is the most intelligent and most highly educated military in our history. Most have at least a high school diploma and very few come from the bottom quartile of our social/economic spectrum. So, what all that being said the military still can not make the integration of gays and the integration of women into the combat arms work. If we should ever get into a big shooting war that would require the re-activation of the draft I shudder to think of the total breakdown of discipline, morale, and mission that would occur. I’m a Vietnam vet and the discipline and social problems that we had among the enlisted ranks was a disaster, especially towards the end. And, that was without these new variables recently introduced....