Their salaries must be raised, and their pensions increased, and their living conditions made more bearable. Do not be surprised if you have not heard about attrition rates before. The services do not really know what to do about them, and neither the press nor politicians pay much attention. Meanwhile white women have a higher attrition rate than any other group in the military. At the same time, about 26 percent of all men leave.
Conservatives tend to blame the women's high attrition rates on gender-integrated training.
Training men and women together, they say, is at the root of the problem. The attrition rates show no sign of declining, although they pose a long-term threat to military readiness. and represent a great waste of money. It would not be politically feasible. Consequently the military will go on as before, and so will the White House and Congress. Higher pensions may be nice, but they will not do much for the problem.