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HARI SREENIVASAN: A survey published Friday showed that a large percentage of women soldiers who reported unwanted sexual advances said they faced retaliation.
For more about this, we are joined from Washington by Tom Vanden Brook. He is a reporter for USA Today.
So, what were the numbers? What were the women saying happened?
TOM VANDEN BROOK, USA Today: Well, Hari, of those reporting sexual assault in the military among the ranks, it was 62 percent of the women said that they had received some form of retaliation after making those reports.
HARI SREENIVASAN: So, in — then, to put this in context, the number of reported cases has gone down, right?
TOM VANDEN BROOK: That’s right.
I mean, the — well, actually, the prevalence of cases, so the ones that they estimate has gone down to about 20,000. And that is a 27 percent decrease from 2012.
The actual folks coming forward and reporting, that has gone up in this year about 11 percent to 6,000 cases.
The military perceives that to be progress, in that people feel comfortable enough to come forward and make a report of a sexual assault.
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