@FOUND SOUL,
Quote: was she ever subject to any situations where men tried or did take advantage of her?
No, male soldiers almost never do rape-rape. Complaints of sexual assault in the Army generally turn out to be tales of confused consent or female resentment.
During our recent wars there were a lot more men down range than women, which makes for some problems. The women are much more in demand for sex than the males, so they get a lot of pressure to mate up. What you get are women who mate up with three or four guys so that they will not get asked constantly (Hey, you know that my dance card is full so stop asking) and they are also then seen as good sports....a team player. problems tend to happen when those multiple guys start competing for her time and she remembers that she is not thrilled with having sex with them most of the time, that she is only sleeping with so many guys because it is easier to say yes the a few guys she actually likes then be constantly propositioned by everyone else, but it all gets to be a chore. She cant say yes to just one guy, that is too much like work husband and work wife, it fucks with unit cohesion. If she says yes to zero she is a lesbian and/or stuck up. As a 1sg dealing with sexual assault complaints down range is a huge time suck, as they all need to be investigated and these stories tend to turn out to be complicated tales involving multiple people that takes weeks or months to develop into the female complaining of sexual assault. Keep in mind too that there are no secrets, the entire unit knows all about the drama.
In garrison complaints tend to be lots of drinking by everyone leading to confused consent, which is why you see the military cracking down on drunk sex.
EDIT: I have not spend any time checking by my first impression of the 8% increase in reporting of sexual assault is that it seems very low. The definitions have been changed at the direction of Congress, I am pretty happy that we seem to not be seeing a lot more females soldiers being the victim than we did under the old rules. My wife and most females soldiers know very well how to beat of men if they want to. It seems that the culture that women soldiers should not be whinny is holding for now.