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Seriously? I don't know what branch you served in, what your MOS was, or what time period you were in, but this could not be more inaccurate to the Army I have spent the last 16 years and counting in. Where to begin?
2) The UCMJ, or Uniform Code of Military Justice, does indeed have coverage for adultery. However, it practically takes an act of God to get someone punished for it. Now you damn near have to have video footage of them mid-stroke to prosecute, and even then it's not a sure thing.
3) Rules about those in ones chain and of various ranks. To a degree, yes. But these days it's really only about Officers with Enlisted unless its an E6 or above with a PVT in his direct supervisory care. And that doesn't even begin to talk about all the other E4 & below in the barracks she will be around every day. On more than one occasion at Ft Bragg I walked into a barracks room to find a female on a bed in the middle of the room with anywhere from 4 to 7 guys running a train on her. Which brings me to the next one.
4) Don't have time for it? You think we keep busy for so long that all we do when we get off is sleep? Wow. We now do pt from 0630 to 0730, then work from 0900 to 1700 with 60 to 90 minutes for lunch. And that's almost always Monday to Friday only. Training and classes, when they do happen, happen during those work hours while nothing else gets done. A little cleaning happens after duty hours, but that's mainly on Sunday nights for barracks folk, and even that's barely an hour if that. From 5pm to 6am plus all weekends I've got nothing but time to mess around, and trust me, I'm far from "too tired".
5) Combat zones are entirely different than when you were in as well. To start with, as a female, unless she joins up in these new female combat arms MOS's, she'll almost certainly be in some sort of support MOS, which means she'll be staying on the FOB with all the other maintenance guys etc. (This also applies to Garrison as well. Support means working with support guys, who are off at 5pm most every day.) For the fobbits, every day is staving off boredom any way you can. You're not patrolling, kicking in doors or catching bullets. You're sitting. Waiting for something to fix. The boredom makes your mind turn to sex, no matter what your gender. We had three pregnancies downrange this last deployment just in my small unit. One is married as well, but she took care of it while on R&R, so the chain of command no longer had any proof of adultery.
6) Again with this no downtime thing. Kept busy except when sleeping? Apparently you've never been to a Walmart in a military town recently during the day. They're full of guys in uniform shopping because they have nothing else to do at that moment. Same at malls. In fact, everywhere in a military community you'll find more Soldiers than you will actually AT work.
You've rarely heard quarters called barracks? Married people live in housing, single people live in barracks. That's all there is. On most bases they do NOT share a large room anymore. Most bases have large rooms for two Soldiers, although many now have single Soldier rooms.. most with their own bathroom (rare to use the word latrine now as well) and kitchenette. The days of men living in bays and 8 man rooms are dead and gone except for in Basic training and a few AIT's. Same goes with Fire Watch. That's a dead practice except for Basic training. At permanent duty stations there are CQ desks, but that's simply to keep fights and rapes at a minimum. When on CQ, you do perform checks, but only the security of the common doors to ensure they're locked. A gang bang could and often does- happen in rooms with the CQ remaining blissfully unaware of it. Of course some times they do find out, and pop in to get some quick head. Its a reality of today's Army. I've actually seen a female Soldier finish in one room with two guys, leave, go knock at the next room and play in there, and repeat in a third room before deciding she had enough. Welcome to maintenance. Most military females don't "haunt" the same places off post that males do? You really haven't been in a military community recently have you? It's all soldiers- male and female- going to the same five clubs and bars. And another thing. Why the hell do you talk so much about pass? Passes are much less common. Folks go to off post bars on weeknights now, and the weekends? Well.. let's just say we party our asses off out here.
One more thing, in all three of my combat deployments we had guard/reservists brought in to support families. Mainly guard MPs. I gotta tell you, there were so many of them fucking wives it was actually disturbing. They set up things for the wife to put in the window to signify they were available or not. Its kind of wild, but it's part of the military lifestyle. So yeah, to say that people are talking about what they don't know? Hmm..