"Personally, I do not think it is unreasonable top expect a much lower rate of criminal conduct in the military, considering the regimentation of military personnel."

Not sure what regimentation has to do with it. This is a section of our population that is fighting in wars and under considerable stress. The detailed statistics I've seen only go back to 2004, when the SAPRO was created, and I would be interested in seeing what the numbers were prior to 2001.

How do the per-capita statistics compare for other high-stress jobs (firemen, police, etc.)?

We are also in an era with many more women in the military (4 percent in 1970, 16 percent in 2010) and they are beginning to move into high-tension combat situations. Has that affected the overall statistics? Note that the report states women who are deployed have more problems than those who are not.

Now remember, this was how the original news article ran (italics mine):

Pentagon's annual report on sexual assault shows alarming rise

On Tuesday, the Pentagon will release the annual report on sexual assaults in the military, which shows some startling numbers.

While the report will show that the number of reported assaults in fiscal year 2012 rose only 6 percent to 3,374 — up from 3,192 a year before — the number of people who made an anonymous claim that they were sexually assaulted but never reported the attack skyrocketed from 19,000 in FY11 to 26,000 in FY12.

The only thing missing was a "Drudge Siren."

And yet when you look at the actual report, the same number for 2007 was 34,200. This kind of screws up the whole meme. Where was the media when the rate "plummeted" (or whatever the opposite of "skyrocketed" would be) from 34,200 to 19,000?

And does anybody wonder why this huge drop and new rise happened? Or what the larger pattern looks like?

Isn't that the important question?