Quite obviously the military has a serious problem with having persons in service who have a sexual preference for others with whom they serve.

Even as women distinguish themselves in battle alongside men, they're fighting off sexual assault and harassment. It's not a new consequence of war. But the sheer number of women serving today — more than 190,000 so far in Iraq and Afghanistan — is forcing the military and Department of Veterans Affairs to more aggressively address it.

The data that exists — incomplete and not up-to-date — offers no proof that women in the war zones are more vulnerable to sexual assault than other female service members, or American women in general. But in an era when the military relies on women for invaluable and difficult front-line duties, the threat to their morale, performance and long-term well-being is starkly clear.
Of the women veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan who have walked into a VA facility, 15 percent have screened positive for military sexual trauma, The Associated Press has learned. That means they indicated that while on active duty they were sexually assaulted, raped, or were sexually harassed, receiving repeated unsolicited verbal or physical contact of a sexual nature.

Of course I suppose one might assume that all those women were assaulted by homosexual males who "don't tell." ????? At least the assumption by some seems to be that only homosexuals would be in the least inclined to seek or to have sex while in military service.

[Original link:
Female soldiers cite sexual assaults
By Kimberly Hefling
The Associated Press
updated 11:54 a.m. CT, Mon., July. 21, 2008
Surprisingly, still up.]

John