Sadly, this rings true. In fact, I’d be surprised if there *weren’t* some sort of pay-to-play going on under those circumstances.
It is worse than folks let on.
In every rating there are a certain number of ship slots and land slots. So with that rating you spend so many years on a ship, and then so many years at shore, when you can have some sort of normal home life or perhaps pursue and marry a young lady.
Women getting pregnant take away the shore slots, which means sailors who were supposed to have a 18~24 month slot on dry land suddenly get shipped out to fill the empty berth. Totally unfair and a reason you cannot keep a lot of good personal in for a career, especially in some rating where there are not a lot of excess personnel.
It also causes all sort of difficulties on ship. Men together form deep male friendships and a lot of comradeship under adverse circumstances. Lasts a lifetime. Stick a few young fertile women in and it becomes a fight to see who gets laid by whom. No number of harassment classes can defeat basic biology. The comradeship goes by the wayside when every swinging d—k is trying to get entry into the few females around. It is very bad for discipline.
It is bad for the women. You take a objectively 4 or 5 attractiveness female and suddenly in a position where the males outnumber them 4 to 1 and guess what, they are , in that close quarters a 8 or a 9. They have never had such attention before and many act accordingly, they go full slut. Then they get out of the service and find that the inevitable wear and tear, along with the masculine manners they have unknowingly adopted make then a 3.5 or a 4.5 in the real world. It is very sad all round.
The entire social engineering is weakening the military, I expect it will take a real defeat, due to loss of cohesion under fire to cause reality to intrude on this utopian leftist dream of gender equality.