The Pentagon has released sexual assault data for all its installations in all four branches of the military in both the US and abroad.
The report, which was published on Friday in response to a large number of Freedom of Information Act requests, details sexual assaults data for fiscal years 2013 through 2016.
Overall, there were 6,153 reports of sexual attacks in the military in Fiscal Year 2016 up from 5,676 the year before, according to the Defense Department.
Although reports of sexual assaults in combat zones have plummeted since 2013, they increased marginally last year, the data showed.
For the 2016 fiscal year, 32 percent of service members, who were sexually assaulted now report it, up from 25 percent in fiscal years 2014 and 2015, the Pentagon stated.
The number of reports, however, does not necessarily show that the incident happened at any particular installation, but rather indicates the place where the service member is…