I wanted to get into an air force, How can you protect yourself from rape?

The best advice I can give you is to let the way you act, behave, and carry yourself establish what kind of person you are and avoid those that seem to operate on a lower level especially during their off-duty time. Don't mix playtime with work time or with those that you work with and at the first sign of a serious problem bring it to the attention to both the commander and the first sergeant along with the person identified for handling complaints of this nature at your base or post. Even then you still might fall victim to some jerk just like you might in civilian life just out of the blue and without any warning. Awareness and avoidance is really your first and best line of defense along with the above really and that sometimes even is not enough still. One only has to look at the large number of assaults on college campuses to confirm this really and so I would not let this stop me from enlisting if I were you. However you can minimize or reduce the odds of it happening to you in a lot of ways beforehand if you are smart and willing to.

Despite all the media hype (a lot of it fanned on by publicity-seeking politicians), the incidence of rape in the Air Force is very low. I served for 21 years and never even HEARD of a case at any base I was at. You will NOT "be sleeping in the same room with guys." Quarters are gender-separated.

An all girls Air Force huh? That's not a waste of money. I don't know what the statics are for rape or assault in the US military but it wouldn't warrant an all female military service.

If your worried about that. Dont join, simple.

In spite of the anti-military hype about the "huge increase in sexual harassment cases" rape isn't common in the military.

What the newsies are crowing about is the new policy that basically says anytime a female feels uncomfortable- they can claim sexual harassment (anything from 'that creepy guy looking at me' to someone grabbing your butt to actual rape), and the news media will gleefully throw out the increasing sexual assault statistics.

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Every one is wrong here. In my 20 yrs what happens is that a male soldier breaks up with a female soldier so she about 2 weeks later says she was raped because he wont take her back. Ages 17 to 23 are the ones that complain. Women in the military are a joke and create more problems then they solve. Its all drama crap. Glad Im out. Now send me my dam check!

Unfortunately, rape is a concern everywhere. If you keep your wits about you and make sound decisions, you will probably have no problems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLAMLJxTUxY

Yes rape and sexual assault happen in the military but NO MORE than in the civilian world, even less than if you go to college. So you stop freaking out about it, you make sure you have a life and not stay in your room all day, and if you do go out you have at least one buddy with you.

NO you don't have guy roommates if you are a female. You will have a female roommate. In barracks/dorms there are floors that are females only. On a ship they are areas that are females only.

Of course you sleep in an area only with females! You have a better chance at being raped in the civilian world than in the military world. Sexual harassment in the military is blown way out of proportion, you only hear on the news about the military rape cases, not about the millions of others who have served without incident.

And an all girls air force? Really that is the dumbest thing I have ever heard and there are some pretty stupid things that get said on here.