The predictor variables included four subscales from the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire: (1) physical-emotional abuse, (2) sexual abuse, (3) emotional neglect, and (4) physical neglect. The research also included an additional sexual abuse variable based on the four screening questions developed by Finkelhor, Hotaling, Lewis, and Smith. Outcome was measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) and a dissociation scale developed by Briere and Runtz. Results revealed that 51 percent of the females and 17 percent of the male soldiers reported a history of childhood sexual abuse, while 48 percent of the females and 50 percent of the males had experienced physical abuse. Thirty-four percent of the females and 11 percent of the males experienced both types of abuse. Multivariate analyses of variance revealed that physical-emotional abuse contributed to most of the effects. However, childhood sexual abuse contributed additional significant effects to all the subscales. Findings suggest that some of the differences in manifested psychological symptoms between male and female soldiers as measured by the BSI may be attributable to the female soldiers' more extensive childhood abuse histories. Tables and 35 references (Author abstract modified)