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An estimated 180 to 390 of the U.S. Coast Guard's 39,000 active-component members experienced one or more sexual assaults in the past year

• This figure includes assaults by other service members, civilians, spouses, or others.
• It represents 3.0 percent of active-component women and 0.3 percent of active-component men.
• The prevalence of sexual assault is significantly lower for men and women in the Coast Guard compared to the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, even after controlling for demographic and other differences, but similar to that of the Air Force.
• Among women who were sexually assaulted in the past year, the assailant was another member of the military in 77 percent of all cases.

Far more Coast Guard members experienced sexual harassment in the past year than experienced sexual assault

• Approximately 6 percent of active-component Coast Guard members, or 2,350 members, experienced some form of sexual harassment in the past year.
• A higher proportion of women (roughly 1 in 5) than men (1 in 25) had workplace experiences in the past year that, under Coast Guard directives, would be classified as sexual harassment.
• 90 percent of active-component Coast Guard members who experienced sexual harassment or gender discrimination described the perpetrator(s) as members of the military.

Sexual harassment and gender discrimination are strongly associated with sexual assault

• 30 percent of Coast Guard women who were sexually assaulted indicated that their assailant had sexually harassed them prior to the assault.