Were there differences, across the Services, in reporting unwanted, uninvited sexual experiences?
Overall, rates declined significantly across all Services except the Coast Guard, where there was no significant change. Navy women exhibited the most precipitous decline in reporting, dropping 13 percentage-points, from 66 percent in 1988 to 53 percent in 1995. In 1988, women in the Marine Corps reported at the highest rates (75% of active-duty Marine women reported experiencing one or more incidents); Army and Navy women reported at about the same levels (68% and 66%, respectively), Coast Guard was 62 percent, and Air Force was lowest at 57 percent. In 1995, women’s incidence rates continued to be highest for Marine Corps (64%, down 11 percentage-points from 1988), but the Army rate, at 61 percent (down seven points), is now not statistically different than the Marines. The Navy’s incidence rate, at 53 percent (down 13 points), is much lower and not statistically different than that of the Air Force (at 49%, down eight percentage-points from 1988). In 1988, 62 percent of Coast Guard
