U.S. military personnel who have experienced sexual assault are twice as likely to leave the military within 28 months of an attack, according to a new Rand Corp. report.
"Sexual assault and sexual harassment are associated
with a wide range of harms to individual service members, but this study
highlights another negative impact of these crimes -- higher rates of attrition
and associated harms to force readiness," Andrew Morral, senior behavioral
scientist at the nonprofit think tank and lead author of the report, said in a
Rand news release on Tuesday.
"We estimate that sexual assaults and harassment of
service members that occurred in a single year were associated with the
premature loss of at least 16,000 person-years of service over the following 28
months."
The report, "Effects of Sexual Assault and Sexual
Harassment on Separation from the U.S. Military," showcases the findings
of the 2014 Rand Military Workplace Study, which the organization conducted for
the Pentagon. Completed in 2019, the Rand document was "recently cleared
for publication by DoD's Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office,"
according to the news release.
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