. Pretty much all the females at my ROTC unit feel the same way. We're excited to do our time, but we don't see it as a career thing.
I'm still undecided on this issue as far as which Navy, but, I think this statment, if taken as a whole, is telling enough to contradict your most previous statement. While there may be just as many men who 5 and dive, I would be hard pressed to see a statistic that shows men as a percentage leaving in higher numbers than women after minimum service time.
As a slight threadjack, is NROTC committment after winging seriously only 6 years? It's 8 for USNA after wings, so ~ 10 years minimum. That definitely deters people away from Aviation here.