Its an education. Unless you've been there, you have no idea, you may spend your whole life not realizing what the "average man" is really like. They aren't all like the people we meet in church, in college, at home or at the office. A hitch in the service leaves you profoundly changed, for a variety of reasons, even without the stress of combat and multiple deployments.

As for domination and control, I can't think of any group of people more dominated and controlled than the military, except for prison inmates. I know I resented the discipline and regimentation, even though I was perfectly aware that it is absolutely necessary under those circumstances. I can imagine the reaction of those who cannot understand that. I did see a lot of resentment and anger, repressed violence, and an enormous amount of alcoholism. (I just missed the drug era.) Adolescents repressed by military discipline are in a constant state of tension, and the military exploits that tension.

I saw no evidence of rape while I was in the military, although aboard ship, in those days, the opportunity for that crime simply did not exist. We didn't spend enough time in our home port to get a feeling about how things were ashore, at the home and family level.