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The divorce rate in the military is terrible. In the navy, it is 80%. The odds are hard. Of course, many navy marriages are doomed from the start. Young men barely out of high school marry a young woman still in her teens so that he can receive BAH and BAS and move out of the barracks. Then he goes to sea for a six month deployment and the wife is left at home alone with access to his increasingly-growing bank account. And she's young and probably on her own for the first time as well and she hangs out and goes "clubbing' with other young navy wives and, well, you can figure out the rest.

I see it all the time.

On the flip side, I see sailors who vow that they would never cheat on their wives and then find themselves in a notorious port with booze in their system, surrounded by throngs of young, beautiful (and very willing) foreign ladies. The famous cry of "What happens in port stays in port!" is heard and these men go crazy.

I've seen this countless times as well.

Maybe a few more Bible based Chaplains might really solve this problem? At times I truly believe you need supernatural strength to navigate out there. Ooops, I forgot. They can't even pray in His name so as not to offend people.