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...first interview since accepting the general discharge, Kelly Flinn, with her brother Don in attendance, spoke to TIME correspondents John Dickerson and Kevin Fedarko on Saturday at the Holiday Inn in Minot, N.D. Throughout, she kept consulting a personal datebook but spoke calmly and with little rancor, even as she reasserted that Marc Zigo was to blame for her downfall. The only show of emotion came after she was asked what position she played in soccer ("I've always been a halfback"). When the next question was Marc Zigo's position, she sighed, closed her eyes and looked down...
...January the Air Force showed Flinn Zigo's statement, and she knew she had fallen hard for the wrong man, a louse so low he makes George Costanza look like Sir Galahad. Zigo, whom she swiftly kicked out, had lied about nearly everything: his birthplace, his age, his marital status, his probation on wife-beating charges. The ring he gave Flinn was the same one he had given his wife. He even lied about his soccer career...
...relationship was private until another officer under investigation for misconduct pointed the finger at Zigo and Flinn. The two agreed to deny their affair, and she signed a statement in November saying the relationship was platonic. But Zigo, unbeknown to Flinn, blurted out everything to investigators, who probed for details about their foreplay, birth control and where they had sex. The official report is so graphic it is stamped WARNING: THIS REPORT CONTAINS EXPLICIT MATERIAL. In mid-December, the Air Force gave Flinn a written order not to come within 100 ft. of Zigo, but she was already living with...
...much can--or should--an employer try to control it? There has to be a stricter standard in the life-and-death military, but something is out of kilter when two married executives at ABC have an affair and one gets promoted to president of ABC News, while Lieut. Flinn, who had an affair with a civilian she initially didn't know was married, faced dishonorable discharge and 9 1/2 years in prison. Does it make sense to throw 65,000 young women together with several hundred thousand males, under immense stress, boredom and loneliness--then also raise...
...Force insists it isn't the adultery that did Flinn in but disobeying an order and lying. Once again, it's the cover-up, not the crime. Why wasn't she given counseling, a reprimand or reassignment? At the same base where Flinn was being hounded, a lieutenant colonel having an affair with his secretary was given a reprimand and fined $4,600 last year. Late last week the Air Force put out feelers encouraging Flinn to resign. Too bad she didn't refuse to go quietly...