Your daughter sounds like a gem. :) And we need good people in the military. But I advise you to look up rates of sexual abuse (rape and other) in the armed forces. I’ve read recently that as many as a quarter of all women in the armed forces have been raped. (The rate of male-on-male rape is also much higher than in our general population.) Check that out before making decisions.
Yes, I am concerned about sexual assault in the military.
I have noticed the uptick of pregnant, unwed females in the military but knowing some of these girls also tells me that would have happened military or not.
As for the Service Academies, I’m not sure if she has the math and science grades that would get her in. She is a sophomore that has taken Earth Science (A-), Biology (B+), Algebra (B+) and Geometry (B so far, WILL be brought up). Other courses,including electives, are all high A’s.
I can chime in on this. Most of it is bogus. Sexual assault can be anything from playing grab a$$ up to an including rape. They are trying to hide the fact that more men are getting attacked by fudging the numbers. They recently changed the definition of sexual assault. Before sexual assault was rape or attempted rape.
Now sexual assault is basically any incident involving a man and a woman. Guys texting pics have been accused of sexual assault and punished. They also did a bogus survey where they asked if people was sexually assaulted even if it was in WW2 and later and they included those in the results to make it seem like rapes went up.
They claim its better reporting which I call BS.
There is a whole bunch of “I got drunk and woke up felt I was raped” The military keeps pushing the fantasy that men and women are equal and that results in most of these types of assaults. Usually one or both parties are blind drunk and both gets screwed.
On the male/male side, a lot of roommates get touched, groped while sleeping.