Word: flinn
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Ralston's tailspin came at the end of an unprecedented fortnight at the Pentagon, where senior officers held their breath amid almost daily charges and revelations about career-ending sexual misconduct. No sooner had the Air Force completed its awkward ejection of Lieut. Flinn than allegations of wrongdoing by officials high and low began landing in the Pentagon's backyard. Army Major General John Longhouser, commanding general of Aberdeen Proving Ground, decided last week to retire after a telephone tipster told Army investigators of an affair Longhouser had had five years ago. Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved...
...draw a line." But that line seemed skewed in favor of a man with four stars on his shoulder and 32 years of service. The Pentagon chief and his aides spent much of last week splitting legal hairs to show why Ralston's transgression wasn't as severe as Flinn's. Whereas Flinn, the Air Force's first female B-52 pilot, lied about her affair and disobeyed an order to stop seeing her boyfriend, Ralston had his fling when the then colonel and his first wife were separated. Because Ralston and his love, a married CIA employee, were attending...
...life let Lieut. Kelly Flinn down [WASHINGTON DIARY, May 26]. She was used by the liar she fell for; a male fellow officer ratted on her to save his own skin. She was surrounded by officers, but where were the gentlemen in Flinn's life? As a retired military man, I am ashamed of my former profession and my gender. MICHAEL K. HEANEY First Lieutenant, U.S.A. (ret.) Bernardsville...
Some advice for Flinn: go on the lecture circuit and drop some bombs there. Then write a book! Your financial security will be assured. It worked for losing prosecutor Marcia Clark; it will work for a role model like you. REMO P. CRUZ Glendale, Calif...
...former enlisted member of the Air Force, I find the Flinn case highly disturbing. Would I recommend enlisting or accepting a commission in the Air Force to my son or daughter? Absolutely not! Any branch of the armed forces that enforces such ineffective, archaic rules of military justice deserves to lose its best and brightest. LEAH R. JONES Bellevue...