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#2I suppose if they were actually deployed to the theater, the odds would be different. But they literally don't get within miles of the enemy so it's pretty hard for the enemy to kill them. Yes, there are dangers in a world filled with drones and missiles, but it's not that large.
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#4This article tries to make it sound like it's incredibly unsafe for women to be in the army. But if you dig a bit to get to the statistics (and if we use actual percentages, not "per 100,000" in an attempt to make the numbers seem bigger), the death by homicide rate is .0046% for women in the army, .0034% for men in the army (barely lower than women), and .0023% for women nationally in the US (again, barely lower than army members whether men or women).
These are tiny numbers. Those deaths are certainly tragic, and I wish fervently for the perpetrators to be held to account, but I think it's incredibly irresponsible for journalists to try to sensationalize this as a major problem for the army when the data shows that it is not. A woman is incredibly unlikely to be murdered if she joins the army, just as she would be if she didn't join.
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#5This article tries to make it sound like it's incredibly unsafe for women to be in the army. But if you dig a bit to get to the statistics (and if we use actual percentages, not "per 100,000" in an attempt to make the numbers seem bigger), the death by homicide rate is .0046% for women in the army, .0034% for men in the army (barely lower than women), and .0023% for women nationally in the US (again, barely lower tha…
so 2x if you join the army? obviously non-causal, but still not insignificant
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#6This article tries to make it sound like it's incredibly unsafe for women to be in the army. But if you dig a bit to get to the statistics (and if we use actual percentages, not "per 100,000" in an attempt to make the numbers seem bigger), the death by homicide rate is .0046% for women in the army, .0034% for men in the army (barely lower than women), and .0023% for women nationally in the US (again, barely lower tha…
Just to add to this, women make up 20% of the Army, but only account for 2% of ground combat units (even less during the period this data was taken).
Women in the Army were disproportionately less likely to be at risk of combat. So the comparison about being "less likely to be killed by enemy combatants" is itself incredibly clickbaity.
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#7This article tries to make it sound like it's incredibly unsafe for women to be in the army. But if you dig a bit to get to the statistics (and if we use actual percentages, not "per 100,000" in an attempt to make the numbers seem bigger), the death by homicide rate is .0046% for women in the army, .0034% for men in the army (barely lower than women), and .0023% for women nationally in the US (again, barely lower tha…
"From 2001 to 2023, nearly 1 in 4 women service members experienced sexual assault"
"the Army took no action to address the string of female soldiers attacked in their barracks"
"Between 2021 and 2023, the Army recorded a total of 16 homicides among active-duty women, Hagan told The Intercept. The data provided to The Intercept for its FOIA request counts only nine.[…] If the same pattern of undercounting extends across the full 14-year span of our data, the true toll could be substantially higher."
"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth eliminated the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. It had existed for nearly 75 years, focusing on issues including sexual harassment and assault."
"A Project on Government Oversight investigation revealed thousands of abuse cases involving Army personnel were mishandled, many never entered into tracking systems. Investigators could only look at 10 out of more than 60 Army installations."
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#8This article tries to make it sound like it's incredibly unsafe for women to be in the army. But if you dig a bit to get to the statistics (and if we use actual percentages, not "per 100,000" in an attempt to make the numbers seem bigger), the death by homicide rate is .0046% for women in the army, .0034% for men in the army (barely lower than women), and .0023% for women nationally in the US (again, barely lower tha…
so 2x if you join the army? obviously non-causal, but still not insignificant
It’s an odd change though. The rate of homicide per 100,000 for men goes down in they’re in the army (9.3 per 100,000 in the US general population) but for women their rate doubles.