Sexual assault is still a major issue for the military. Reports rose by 10 percent last year , though there is some discussion about whether that's an increase in the number of assaults, or an increased willingness of troops to come forward and report them. That would be an improvement, because victims of rape in the military often face retaliation , sometimes even a less than honorable discharge from the military. Among those veterans there is another number that is going up: the people getting their records corrected to show they served honorably. Sexual assault and harassment affects female troops at a higher rate. But since the military is still mostly male, it's men who make up a much larger number of victims among the thousands of sexual assaults each year. Women report the crime more than twice as much as men. Which is what makes Heath Phillips so rare, because he speaks about it publicly. Phillips was sexually assaulted repeatedly by a group of sailors right after he joined the
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