After breathing, reproduction is the biggest driving force in the animal kingdom. In the case of most, if not all humans, the reproduction part is not as big a driver as the sex part.

The military has known this ever since the first group of Geico cavemen set out to attack neighboring cavemen. They left the cavewomen home and that started the sexually related problems with deployed troops for military leaders.

The US military has its own set of laws that they impose on anyone who joins the armed services. If you are in the military their system of laws is called the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). Knowing that military members want to engage in sex just like their civilian counterparts, the Department of Defense has Articles (laws/rules) in the UCMJ that cover just about any kind of sexual act you can think of.

If the UCMJ cannot stop you from having sex using their no-sex-act articles then they can get you for "conduct unbecoming." There are things that you are prohibited by the UCMJ from doing, which if you did them at your civilian job no one would really care, and for sure you would not go to jail for the act.

Missing a movement is one. This has nothing to do with your digestion system, it means you failed to be there when your unit was sent off on deployment; you missed going to war. If Sears or IBM directed you to go someplace and you did not, this could cost you your job, but they cannot send you to jail. If you are in college and the rule is no coed dorm visitation after a certain hour and you get caught with your significant other at two in the morning, it is not that big a deal--you'll probably get college "probation," if that.

If you are in Iraq, where there is a general order that prohibits you from having sex even if your military spouse is deployed with you, they can court marshal you, ruin your military career and put you in jail. In the light of day the military can really be prudish. They act like legally married couples are the only people who desire to progress beyond slow dancing.

In reality it is a lot different. I was stationed in Korea and have been to the Philippines and I truly believe that the US military in those countries quietly condones drunken-debauchery. Keep the troops drinking and consorting with the local working girls and maybe they will forget about home and the families they had to leave behind.

This attitude seemed to work for the military in locations where there was alcohol and prostitution, but it has not worked at all in Muslim countries. Now what you had better not do in the military is spend your off duty time working in the sex industry. If you decide to star in a porno movie, that is the sex industry. If you want to be an exotic dancer (read stripper) at an off base night club, that is the sex industry. If you take military leave, fly to an exciting location and pose for Playboy magazine while still in the Air Force, that is working in the sex industry.

I know that most intellectually gifted military men only read Playboy for its excellent articles, but when young Airmen see their supervisor, Staff Sergeant Michelle Manhart, in the fold out section of that magazine we have a problem. Sergeant Manhart is working in the sex industry.

It is like the classic case of high school boys who get into a strip club on fake IDs and discover Miss Jones their English teacher performing a pole dance. The next day Miss Jones does not understand why she cannot control the rowdy boys in her class.

In her eyes the two jobs, teaching high school and dancing naked, have nothing to do with one another. Miss Jones is working in the sex industry and has set herself up for future problems in her day job. Sergeant Manhart, now I understand demoted to Senior Airman Manhart, was working in the sex industry, then went back to her day job--the Air Force--and does not understand why the boys and girls she is in charge of do not respect her rank and authority. They just want to look at the six pages of nude photos. Public sexual display does not help leadership.