Friday, June 06, 2008

Whoops Part 2

June 6,
2008:  Periodically, usually on a slow
news day, the mass media will run stories of sexual harassment and assault in
the military. It does happen. Currently, about 210 per 100,000 members of the
military are victims of sexual assault each year. However, 60 percent of the
assaults were committed by non-military personnel. Moreover, the sexual assault
rate is more than five times higher among the U.S. college population. That
might be explained by the greater opportunity. About 55 percent of college students
are women, while only 15 percent of military personnel are female. Then again,
if you are in the military, you are trained to be far more disciplined than the
average college student.



 


As for
combat risk, that causes far less injury to military women each year than does
sexual assault. So college life has no edge there.