Marine Corps Sexual Assault

Twenty percent of sexual assault victims say it happened in the living quarters, Thirty-four percent say the assault included alcohol and/or drugs used by the victim or the perpetrator, according to a survey by the "Defense Manpower Data Center. Last year eight percent of females in the United States Marine Corps were sexually assaulted, along with 1.1 percent of males. Making the Marine Corps the highest percentage among all of the armed forces. So why would the regimental commander prohibit members of the opposite sex from entering each others rooms? I believe it was because of the high number of sexual assaults in the barracks at the time. Also, due to the fact that these sexual assaults mostly included the use of alcohol. Sexual assault by definition is: any involuntary sexual act in which a person is coerced, or physically forced to engage against their will. In other words the rules and regulation were not being held up in the barracks so the Regimental Commander had to make the rules in the barracks more clear, and more strict. …show more content…
some effects to the victim are, anxiety, self blame, depression, poor self-care, and having unhealthy sleeping and eating patterns. Sexual assault can also affect the workplace and unit/mission readiness. If someone has been sexually assaulted, they are basically taken out of the fight and cannot be one hundred percent effective until the issue is resolved if it even can be. Even after the issue is resolved, the victim will likely never be the same again. From the Regimental Commander's point of view, he is seeing a lot of sexual assaults in the barracks and is most likely worried about Marines/victims being mission ready or simply ready to carry out daily operations effectively. By prohibiting the opposite sex in our barracks rooms, he is stopping the problem at the source and is expecting the number of sexual assault cases to go down