[George W. Bush]

All sexual fraternization should be forbidden within the services. Any officer who fraternizes with the enlisted or cadets should be dismissed. These problems would then cease.

Good order and discipline within the ranks would solve these problems. Until they finally curtail intramural sexual relationships, these same problems will recur.

In this instance, I think some (not all) of the female cadets are luring the officers, hoping for easy treatment, alliance for promotion or marriage within the service. The officers are then encouraged by their success in bedding some of the cadetettes into pressing themselves onto other cadetettes. Then some cry rape or harassment.

You'd think that the Air Force would have cleaned up its problems long before now. Especially in a civilian town like Colorado Springs where there's no reason why an officer has to hit on a cadet or enlisted for sex.

[Alas Babylon!]

Fratenization between officers and enlisted persons is already illegal in accotdance with the Uniform Code of Military Juatice (UCMJ). I don't know if the UCMJ forbids cadet-officer relationships, but fratenization covers MORE than just sex. It forbids personal relationships of any type.

[TankerKC]

Especially in a civilian town like Colorado Springs where there's no reason why an officer has to hit on a cadet or enlisted for sex.

Note that this guy graduated in 2002 and this all happened in August (I assume 2002 also). That means that he probably knew this cadet while he was a cadet.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"All sexual fraternization should be forbidden within the services."

Agreed, but this isn't the military anymore. It's a co-ed social program. Sex is part of the equation.