See the issue can be that in the military, things like squad cohesion and the chain of command can be seen as literally everything. If a soldier is seen as too much of an independent thinker a superior might think it's a good idea to demonstrate that he can make that soldier do what he's ordered to do even if there's no obvious reason for it, even if it constitutes sexual assault. There's the idea that in a combat situation a soldier may not understand the reason for the order they're receiving but lives depend on them following it - and other soldiers are expected to pull together as a unit against soldiers that are seen as not operating as a part of that unit even if it means handing him a noose and dropping him off in the middle of nowhere or disposing of his dismembered remains in the ocean after pressuring him into riding on the running boards of a Jeep at 50 mph down a bumpy beach.
The thing is that these soldiers are not destined for combat. The military needs more mechanics, IT techs, mathematicians, electricians and other nerds than it needs killing machines but that isn't the culture
This is a great post