Word: kelso
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...officers interviewed concealed information and 51 others lied outright. Pentagon Deputy Inspector General Derek Vander Schaaf has sent files on 140 officers to Navy and Marine Corps commands for possible disciplinary action. And 35 other top brass who attended the convention, including Acting Secretary of the Navy Admiral Frank Kelso, could be punished for failing to prevent the sexual assaults...
...glad she did. Says Kelso Sutton, president of the Time Inc. Book Division, who used to work with Siegrist: "She has saved this company millions and millions of dollars by her careful understanding of print orders. And she's made a lot of people look good." Her drive fuels her real avocation: tennis. "I came to it late," she says, "and I can't get enough of it." She's a great doubles partner, but it's good to see her back at her desk, talking animatedly to her computer. I wish I could catch what they're saying...
...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...
Possibly even more embarrassing to the Navy was a videotape record of one of the Tailhook workshops that took place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who witnessed the incident...
...will probably never be known why bags of ammunition designed for the ship's 16-in. guns ignited during loading, creating the inferno in which the men died. And despite Kelso's expression of regret that Hartwig was blamed for the incident "without clear and convincing proof," his family is not dropping a $40 million lawsuit against the Navy for soiling the dead man's name...