Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lightweight crew action, Harvard raced pastDartmouth by two lengths. The victory restoresHarvard's preeminence in the Biglin Bowl Regatta,a race that Dartmouth won last year for the firsttime in the event's 41-year history...
...fact, there were some initial rough patches. Before the ship set sail, a female crew member claimed she had been sexually assaulted. After the carrier got under way, 15 women left early because they had become pregnant -- 12 before the cruise began; three during port calls, two of those with their husbands. Two women also complained that they had been sexually harassed. The Navy considered those incidents within the bounds of a successful mission, acknowledging that the integration of the sexes in such close quarters was bound to create new disciplinary dilemmas and awkward situations...
...important point, the Navy insists, is that the Eisenhower operated more than efficiently. During a busy half-year stint, the Ike suffered no decline in combat readiness. With more than 400 women in its crew of 5,000, the ship was deployed off the coast of Haiti for the U.S. intervention last September; it then steamed to the Middle East in October, when Saddam Hussein marched Iraqi troops to the Kuwaiti border. In December it was posted in the Adriatic, where its jets patrolled the no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina. Throughout the cruise, the ship performed "as well...
Still, morale and discipline were not always perfectly paired. Gemmill strongly discouraged dating, but officers admit many crew members secretly fraternized. Half a dozen couples went to the captain and announced they had fallen in love. Last month a male and a female crew member videotaped themselves having sex in a ship's compartment. The man was caught after he showed the tape to other sailors. "We have taken the focus away from being a potent fighting ship and made the Ike a showboat," grumbled a lieutenant. "We succeeded in this deployment, but would we succeed in combat...
...Navy says disciplinary problems were quickly resolved. The two involved in the videotape incident were kicked out of the Navy. The harassment cases were settled by officers on the ship and deemed minor. Investigators could not find enough evidence that the female crew member was sexually assaulted. Gemmill says the total number of disciplinary cases was less than on previous cruises, while the carrier's maintenance levels and performance improved. Defenders of the new policy point out that the pregnancy rate aboard the Ike was far lower than the overall pregnancy rate for Navy women serving on land...