{"id":28863,"date":"2021-06-18T15:11:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/06\/18\/these-five-army-posts-have-the-highest-sexual-assault-risk-study-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:49:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:49:01","slug":"these-five-army-posts-have-the-highest-sexual-assault-risk-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/06\/18\/these-five-army-posts-have-the-highest-sexual-assault-risk-study-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"These five Army posts have the highest sexual assault risk, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fort Hood<\/a> and Fort Bliss, Texas, top the list of Army installations where women are at the highest risk for sexual assault, taking into account several factors, according to a Rand Corp. study released Friday. Fort Riley, Kansas; Fort Campbell, Kentucky; and Fort Carson, Colorado, round out of the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers concluded that large numbers of young and inexperienced soldiers could account for those risks, but so, too, can toxic command climates<\/a> and proximity to combat arms units.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor example, we estimated that the total sexual assault risk to Army women at Fort Hood during fiscal year (FY) 2018 was 8.4 percent,\u201d according to the report. \u201cBy comparison, the average total risk to all women in the Army during this period was 5.8 percent, almost one-third lower.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study is part of a larger Army G-1 project dubbed \u201cIdentifying Army Organizational Factors Contributing to Sexual Assault Risk,\u201d a focus point for the Army in the wake of the death of Spc. Vanessa Guillen<\/a> at Fort Hood last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFort Hood and Fort Bliss have large numbers of young, unmarried, less-educated, and junior ranking soldiers, who are known to be at higher risk of sexual assault,\u201d according to the report. \u201cThis raises the question of whether groups \u2014 such as installations \u2014 with higher risk estimates have soldiers assigned to them who are at higher risk because of their individual characteristics, or whether their personnel would be expected to experience lower risk if stationed at another base.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even when compared to only other posts of similar size and demographics, researchers estimate that women at Ford Hood are still at a 1.7-percent increased risk of sexual assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Researchers then adjusted their calculations for those at-risk characteristics \u2015 age, marital status and so on \u2015 and found a completely different set of high-risk posts for women and men of any demographic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For women, Fort Drum, New York; Fort Lewis, Washington; and Okinawa, Japan, posed the greatest sexual assault risk. For men, it was Fort Drum; Osan, South Korea; and Italy in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis suggests the possibility that bases, commands, and CMFs with larger proportions of women who live on a base face higher sexual assault risks than would otherwise be expected given their personnel characteristics,\u201d according to the report. \u201cSimilarly, more deployments and environments with greater proportions of combat arms occupations are associated with increased adjusted risk for women.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t