Word: civilianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very unfortunate the way they handled my case. I would love to be able to continue to serve my country. I would love to be able to continue flying. Yeah, I'm gonna try to keep flying within my life, whether it's as an instructor, as a civilian or for a commercial airline. I don't know...
...affair might have ended like most adultery cases, privately, discreetly, without official sanction. Of the 67 Air Force court-martial cases in 1996 that involved adultery, only one did not include other counts, like sexual assault or disobeying orders. When an affair involves an officer messing around with a civilian marriage, officials tend to look the other way. If Marc and Gayla had been separated--as Marc had convinced Kelly they were--there would probably have been little intervention. But once Gayla, an enlisted airman, told a superior that an officer was trying to steal her husband, the Air Force...
...bordellos around the globe were not deemed thus prejudicial; they worried more about disease than about prosecution. Many Air Force pilots today continue to salute each other with the phrase "Wings up, [wedding] rings off." Some of those assigned to TDY, or temporary duty, on distant bases still keep civilian "TDY wives" in addition to their real ones...
Perhaps so. But for the public and its elected representatives, the issue with which Flinn launched her publicity blitz was the one that commandeered the imagination. Citizens who couldn't bridge the ever widening distance between the mores of the civilian world and those of the military, bombarded call-in shows with invocations of the right to keep the government out of the bedroom. In fact, the Air Force, in its treatment of Flinn's transgressions and its prosecution of adultery courts-martial, may be more nuanced than it originally got credit for. But unlike the Army and Navy...
...number of adultery-related courts-martial from 95 in 1992 to 81 last year; the Navy from 27 in 1995 to 15. But the Air Force will probably keep moving in the opposite direction, according to Northwestern University military sociologist Charles Moskos. The Air Force is the most civilianized (only 20% of its members fly planes) and feminized (26% of its new recruits are women) of the services, and its generals are notoriously sensitive lest their troops become indistinguishable from those of, say, a civilian corporation--and equally unfit to fight a real war. An Air Force colonel who served...