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Battleland discussed the infuriating problem of sexual assaults in the ranks of the U.S. military on the PBS NewsHour Tuesday night – just as we did more than 16 years ago. Battleland may be a lot older, but the plague of sexual attacks inside the U.S. military, unfortunately, seems to be retaining its youthful vigor.
The Pentagon‘s annual sexual-assault survey released Tuesday showed a remarkable 39% jump from 2010 to 2012 among active-duty women in uniform alleging they had been sexually assaulted. The anonymous poll charted a rise from 4.4% of women alleging sexual assault in 2010, to 6.1% in 2012. That translates into an increase from 19,300 women affected in 2010, to 26,000 last year (although it remains below 2006