Word: garrett
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bottom of public consciousness, Tailhook keeps resurfacing. The now infamous convention last September of the Tailhook Association, an organization of Navy and Marine aviators, where at least 26 women were sexually molested by servicemen, bobbed up again last week. After months of criticism, Navy Secretary H. Lawrence < Garrett III finally resigned, accepting "full responsibility" for management of the Tailhook incident...
...Garrett's announcement came two days after Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin, a veteran helicopter pilot, publicly described her experience at the gathering. Coughlin came forward because she was frustrated by her superiors' foot- dragging response after they'd been told of the assault. Two internal Navy investigations and 1,500 interviews turned up only two suspected culprits. Not until two weeks ago did Garrett ask the Pentagon's inspector general to investigate the case...
...sailor is about as pleasing as walking past a bevy of foul-tongued construction workers. Unfortunately, the women present at a Las Vegas naval gathering in September witnessed an even darker side of the military man on the make. In a memo issued last week, Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III implicated 70 officers in an investigation of sexual harassment at the now infamous Tailhook convention. Part of the shenanigans at this annual meeting of Navy and Marine aviators included lining up in the halls of the Hilton Hotel and pawing at the breasts and buttocks of any unlucky woman...
...least 26 women -- more than half of them officers -- were assaulted at the convention, but an initial inquiry into the incident turned up few culprits, because male pilots remained tight-lipped on the subject of after- hours "fun." Garrett's memo fiercely chastised the six men directly involved in the incident, but also targeted those who refused to cooperate with the investigation and the commanding officers present at the Hilton who ) did nothing to end the lewd goings-on. The Navy says it is taking appropriate action against all those involved and started a service-wide program against sexual harassment...
...Garrett A. H. Price...