Ms Andrews said she hoped the decision would give others the strength to come forward.
"I want any other victim to know where support is if they need it," she said.
Ms Andrews said the air force interviewed her three times through her childhood without taking any action against Roper. In one instance, she was questioned about sexual assault complaints by a padre and a military police officer - but it took place in front of her father.
"Why did they sweep so much information under the carpet? Why did they not do their job properly when he was accused of attempted rape?" she asked.
The Defence Force refused to provide any specific details to questions posed by NZME. News Service.
"While this offending is abhorrent and we offer our sympathy to victims, this has been investigated by police and dealt with by the courts and NZ Defence Force has no further comment," a spokeswoman said.
Roper's offending only came to light at the end of 2012 - 23 years after leaving the military - when Ms Andrews came forward saying he began abusing her at the age of 6.
By May 2013, police charged him, as other women made similar allegations.
At trial, one victim told the court about a night when Roper offered her a lift home.
He drove her to an area known as "the bombing range" at the air force base, reclined her seat and locked the doors as she tried to escape. Roper then bound her hands with the seatbelt and raped her.
Ms Andrews said approaching police had been the hardest thing she had ever had to do. "Since the age of 6 I've lived in fear, humiliation and hopelessness," she said.
She also highlighted her father's lack of remorse, on which Judge Brooke Gibson also commented.
Judge Brooke Gibson said if the offending had happened after 1993 - when the law changed - Roper would have been looking at up to 20 years in jail.
But the maximum penalty he could impose was 14 years, which was where he started before deducting a year for the defendant's old age.
Abused daughter takes most courageous step
From the age of 6, Karina Andrews' father began abusing her.
By the age of 11, Robert Roper was raping her about once a week.
"I never lived. I learned to survive," she told Auckland District Court yesterday.
But almost 30 years after the offending, she found the strength to tell police, and the empowerment that brought saw her take the most courageous step a victim of sexual abuse can take.
She applied to the court to have her name suppression - automatically applied to victims of sexual offending - lifted.
Ms Andrews is the latest in a very short line of brave women who have voluntarily thrust themselves into the spotlight as victims, as survivors, just like Louise Nicholas did.
She wanted to put her name to her story and let other victims know they should always come forward no matter how historical the crimes may be.
Another one of Roper's victims said she would not have spoken to police without Ms Andrews doing so first.
Ms Andrews said giving evidence at trial as her father stood in the dock was one of the toughest things she had ever done but immediately made worthwhile when the guilty verdicts rolled in.
Ms Andrews said there was part of her that missed her father but it had been a "grieving" process.
"I see him as ... someone who preys on the vulnerable and I detest that."
In contrast, she took the opportunity to pay tribute to an "awesome man" - her husband Paul, who stood by her throughout.
A group who supports Roper issued a statement saying: "We believe it's a witch hunt, we continue to support Robert one hundred percent."
