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...unemployed former chopper pilot said last week. Coughlin's experience does not make her optimistic that the Greene case will lead to enlightenment. Although more than 140 Navy and Marine officers were cited for wrongdoing at the Tailhook convention at the Las Vegas Hilton, none was convicted at court-martial. "I'd be hesitant to call this case a step in the right direction until I see where the court-martial goes," Coughlin said. "I've been there, and it's a kangaroo court...
...HALLMARK SENTIMENTS SOUND more like the musings of a smitten schoolboy than the clipped commands generally issued by a top Navy SEAL commando. But, though hardly coercive, the words landed a Navy captain in a cramped Washington Navy-Yard courtroom last week to face a court-martial. It was the first time such a proceeding had been brought against an officer of his rank since World...
...human decency and proper military behavior, the servicemen waived their right to protection under the agreement, and should be held accountable to the laws of Japan. The arcane postwar agreement should no longer protect them. Their confession should serve as their indictment and as grounds for a court-martial and a dishonorable discharge from the U.S. military. MARIE-EILEEN ONIEAL Lowell, Massachusetts Via E-mail...
Hardly recovered from the Tailhook scandal, the Navy set sail once again on the treacherous seas of a sexual-harassment case. In Washington, court-martial proceedings opened against Captain Everett Greene to examine charges that he wrote suggestive notes and made harassing calls to two female subordinates. He insists his messages were misconstrued. On Friday the judge dismissed one woman's allegations. At the time of the alleged incidents, Greene ran the Navy's equal-opportunity unit--which handled sex- harassment complaints...
Captain Everett Greene, the highest ranking Navy officer to face a court-martial since World War II, was acquitted this afternoon of charges that he sexually harrassed two female subordinates. As the Navy's top equal-opportunity officer, Greene was in charge of eradicating the abuses he was accused of committing. The evidence against him, however, consisted of suggestive cards and gifts that made the women feel uneasy. "It was a weak case," reports Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "The only thing they could have really pinned on him was conduct unbecoming of an officer, and even that was going...