**Trigger warning for sexual assault and rape**Story continues below advertisementUnfortunately, that wasn’t the significant finding from the report. A finding from the Pentagon reports that a soldier is “15 times more likely to be raped by a comrade than killed by an enemy.”](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/military-sexual-assault-facts_b_4281704.html)Unlike most forms of sexual violence, the intersection between sexual violence and gender is noticeably nonexistent. [Indeed, as much as 45 percent of enlisted survivors of sexual violence are men, compared to the civilian rate of roughly 8 percent. ](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/soraya-chemaly/military-sexual-assault-facts_b_4281704.html)The militant culture of sexual violence isn’t limited to broad statistics and numbers, mind you; there are far more mephitic elements at play that make the violence all the more perverse. As the above illustrates, sexual assault and rape in the military is a real but invisible issue, and it’s one that deserves far more than tacit dismissals and self-righteous inaction.
