"Unless and until officers conduct themselves at all times as officers, it is useless to demand and hopeless to expect any improvement in the enlisted ranks.
Matters of correct attitude, personal conduct, and awareness of moral obligations do not lend themselves to control by a set of rules or to scientific analysis...Many methods of instruction and different approaches to teaching them will present themselves. Each naval officer must consider himself an instructor in these matters and the future tone of the naval service will depend on the sincerity which he brings to this task."
United States Navy
1947
Officers start out as young "men".
ReplyDeleteMost of our sailors are "young men" Admittedly, we now have quite a few "Young Women" in the ranks.
Expecting "young men" and "young women" to behave as anything other than sexual creatures is stupidity on a massive scale.