Is it acceptable for a separated soldier to bring a friend of the opposite sex to a military ball?

Sorry, but I call BS on the whole perception is reality. Reality is reality! I was in a foreign country co-located with the Air Force. I spoke some of the local language, enough to get by, and I made the announcement to some friends that I was going downtown the next day to get lunch and do some browsing in the open-air flea market. Some friends wanted to go and a female AF Ssgt (we'll call her Jane) also asked to come along. When we met up the next day to get on the bus, the others bailed, but Jane was there. So, we went to the flea market, bought some things, and had lunch. She saw someone from her office and chatted with them while I placed our orders. The next day, Jane comes to me and says she got written up for being with a married man. Jane is single. I knew her supervisor, so I went to speak with him directly about this matter. He gave me the "perception is reality" speech, and I called BS! Finally, I told him that he needed to be chaptered out of the AF for being openly homosexual (this took place before the repeal of DADT). He asked what I was talking about, so I explained that I would see him and another single, male Airman hanging out on the weekends, even getting hotel rooms. I perceived that both were engaged in a homosexual relationship and that both needed to be chaptered immediately. He claimed he and the other Airman were getting rooms for their "local honies" (his words, not mine). I said it didn't matter, since "perception is reality", and I had witnesses to corroborate my story. Before I left his office Jane's counseling was destroyed and no more said about the matter.

Personally I believe that Army regs need to evolve into the modern era. Government as a whole needs to stay the hell out of private lives. Government has no business legislating morality. I don't have to agree or disagree with it, but it shouldn't be the commands business what any Servicemembers do on their own time. Again I'm not staying my personal beliefs as to the situation mentioned, just that I don't want the government prosecuting consenting adults as to their own legal (however immoral) actions. It technically isn't a crime. We have way more important issues than to butt into people's private lives. Just my .02

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Discretion is the better part of valor.