I don't think my unit was a reflection of the country. One thing you find when you study criminology is that most criminals are young, male, and risk takers (and poor) . That's pretty much anyone that signs up from the military. Without going into psychological crap about things like hypermasculinity that leads to things like running trains on girls I'll just say that there is a higher percentage of criminals in the military than the same age group of civilians. You guys that are out forget how much thievery there was? I know the guys that are in know about it. Unless shyt magically changed after years and years of the shyt. My beret would get stolen when I laid it on the sink while I took a piss (learned to stuff that shyt in my pocket real quick). shyt is not the same.
And to the people criticizing the military saying they're supposed to be the "best and brightest." Fuuuuuck you.
I'd like to agree and disagree with you. I believe the demographics are akin to civilian society. There is some criminal activity but let's take for example fort hood if you have 40000 plus soldiers and there isn't much crime or a higher significant incident report than it's not bad...let's take an military population of over 1 million the amount of crime is relatively low.