But it can happen. A person with more military rank is in a position to use intimidation or rewards in exchange for sexual favors. I will be frank. When I was a young enlisted man, had a female officer told me she would give me an assignment that would exempt me from KP and guard duty and permit me to sleep late in the morning and play poker half the night if I would satisfy her animal desires, I would have stifled my pride and allowed her to use my body. Yes, I might have wept tears of shame afterward, but I would have done it.
Some guys are just weak sluts.
So that is the real problem - the use of the power that comes with rank. It is naive and unrealistic to expect that with thousands of healthy, vigorous young people being in such close proximity, there will not be natural urges. The solution is not to outlaw sex, which just leads to silly scandals of the sort we have now. The answer is to change the military's sex rules. Sex should be permitted when it involves consenting people of the same rank.