It appears that political correctness now rules the Pentagon (Hart pp). After more than forty years of effort, the military appears to have become a model of racial tolerance for the rest of society, yet, efforts for gender tolerance has come to resemble a minefield at numerous military bases and posts (Berg pp)
According to two VA studies, one in four women vets say they had been sexually assaulted while in the military (Berg pp). Coed basic training was first implemented by the Clinton administration in 1994, and since then, there has been an atmosphere that is diminishing morale and leading to dangerous situations in the event of conflict (De Pasquale pp)
Coed Military Training Imagine a father actually encouraging the arrangement in which his eighteen-year-old daughter "for her benefit" shares a bedroom with the next-door neighbor's eighteen-year-old son, for months on end, and as he leaves and turns out the light, he happily says, "now be good, kids" (Hart pp)
However, although the report should have been a red flag regarding the integrated training policy adopted by the Army, Air Force, and Navy, the most that came from the report was that the Army agreed to install partitions in the barracks to discourage sexual encounters (Hart pp). The unanimous recommendations by six women and five men were surprising, considering the diverse makeup of the panel, a mix of retired military officers, a civil rights lawyer and three female college professors (Scarborough pp)