Differences In Military Culture

The forces pulling the military and the civilian population apart have steadily grown over the past decades. Many of the traits needed for military service are unfamiliar concepts to the civilian population. For years army policy and culture have failed to keep pace with the American culture, this is evident in the high attrition rate in the army and the dwindling variety of volunteers joining the military today. Furthering the divide, the repeated misuse of authority has led to the civilian population loosing trust in military leaders. As social priorities in the civilian world change, the civilian and military worlds continue to become more and more dissimilar. Through adapting military culture, reminding the civilian population that we
Unless the army changes its culture and policy to eliminate its acceptance of sexual assault, distrust between the population and the military will grow. Many military leaders in all levels of leadership considered hazing to be an important part of initiation to a unit, and an important military tradition. Elements of these initiations often involve some form of contact that is sexual in nature. For years the military repeatedly denied that it had a sexual assault problem. As the civilian population began to become more and more aware of what was happening they began lost faith that military leaders had America’s best interests at heart. In 2013 Congress told the military that if the trend of sexual assaults continued to be ignored it would force them to take authority away from commanders. The military had failed to prevent an epidemic of sex crimes.1 The military finally realized the scope of their problem, and began to apply the Sexual Assault Prevention and response program. Many commanders who failed to support this program have been removed from the military. In the past three years the military has made progress toward restoring confidence in our military commanders. Stories of American military commanders who ignored the sexual abuse of afghan children have begun to surface. Most of these assaults were perpetrated by Afghan police and military leaders. Many US military leaders did nothing to stop the assaults telling
More and more there is only a specific subset of Americans who will accept this call. This is because values embraced by today’s civilian population are often at odds with the military’s core values. The millennial generation (age 21-33) is currently the most in-demand demographic in today’s employers, and the most in-demand for recruitment into the military. With the rise of this generation we have seen a shift in the reasons young civilians seek employment. Millennials value higher pay more than any other recompense for