The military not allowing officers and enlisted to date forces members to have to chose between their relationship or country. According to the Department of Defense, in 2014 the Air Force alone had over 35,239 officer to enlisted marriages. The couples in the those marriages had to marry once one partner became an officer or married prior to enlisting and going to officer training school. People often do not want to break up because of a job so they do the only thing they can do to preserve the relationship, marriage. The civilian marriage rate among millennials has gone down. Most military members can not follow this trend. The Institute for Family Studies report, “junior enlistees are “nearly twice as likely to be married as civilians aged
