I heard an ex army member, a woman who got sexually assaulted there, talk about this analogy and it stays with me:
Drink driving used to be treated as a harmless "boys will be boys" thing and there were jokes that you wouldn't be promoted to x rank if you didn't have y number of DUI violations.
Until the army stamped down on it and made it policy to give people negative consequences for drunk driving. They were like "it's not funny, we're taking it seriously, you're not gonna get promoted if you recklessly endanger lives that way." And rightly so.
Then army towns became the places with the lowest statistics of DUIs in the US.
So, we know it's possible.
Any organisation, not just the us army, can stamp out harmful behaviour if they actually care to do so.
They could stop rape and assault and harrassment.
They just don't care.
#abuseCulture #RapeCulture