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VA Finds Sexual Assaults More Common in War Zones

Gregg Zoroya reports for USA Today:

Scientists found that military women who had served between 2001 and 2004, and who had been in direct combat, were 2 1/2 times more likely to say they had been sexually assaulted during those years than female servicemembers who had never been to war.

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