US military academies see decrease in reported sexual assaults in 2024 after previous historic high [Video]

The rate of sexual assaults in U.S. military academies “significantly decreased” in 2024, a new Pentagon report released on Thursday said, down from the highest rate ever recorded in 2022. But officials warned that more work was still needed, as the latest data still indicates a higher rate of assaults than in past years.”We believe this data indicates that we are on the right track, that the recommendations and the reforms that are underway are having an impact,” Beth Foster, the executive director of the Office of Force Resiliency for the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, told reporters on Thursday. “But unless we continue to institutionalize that work, there is a possibility that these rates and this trend could go right back up again.”Related video above: Sexual assault down in the military for the first time in nearly a decade, a Pentagon report from earlier this year …