Under the misguided belief that sexual assault cases would lower, the Army has placed extremely restrictive regulations into place that prevent new junior enlisted soldiers from consuming alcohol, imposes a 9:00pm curfew, removes overnight pass privileges, and forces them at all times to be with another soldier of the same sex, or two of opposite gender. This will only lower the reporting of sexual assaults, not prevent them, and prevents junior enlisted soldiers that have families from performing normal tasks like grocery shopping, or playing at the park with one of their children while their spouse is at home taking care of another. While sexual assault is a pervasive problem in the Army, this is not the solution.



