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• Power imbalances and career influence over students in occupational training pipelines may increase the risk for abuse and misconduct.
• Without confidentiality, the survey will lose its value in promoting visibility of behaviors that students are not willing to reveal through official reporting channels.

The survey system needs to address diverse occupational training pipelines

• Pipeline length can range from a few weeks to more than a year.
• Pipelines may require training at one, two, or several installations.
• Some training is run by the other branches of the military.
• Courses may have many students or only a few.
• In some courses, newly enlisted airmen train alongside officers and/or enlisted airmen with greater tenure.

There are two primary options for survey administration

• One option is administering the survey at a single point, capturing a snapshot of all technical training or flying training students at that time.
• The second option is connecting the administration of the survey to the training pipeline itself (e.g., by surveying students at the end of the awarding course).
• Both census (entire population) and sampling approaches have strengths and limitations.
• The survey must ask students about specific behaviors to jog their memories and to avoid problems stemming from differing understandings of terms, such as "hazing" and "sexual harassment."
• If not managed properly, differences in pipelines could lead to misleading comparisons of incident rates.
• Software and computers will need to be updated to support a survey tailored to different types of students dispersed across a wide array of training locations.