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Flinn was in the middle of a three-day psychological evaluation with Duncan, which was recommended by her lawyer, when she heard about the court-martial. "She was devastated," Duncan says, especially because the Air Force p.r. officer had apparently released the information without advising Flinn first. "She hadn't thought the Air Force would treat her that way." Duncan viewed Flinn as "competent, careful, capable of handling external emergencies and unequipped from her training in the Air Force Academy to deal with personal emergencies. I think the academy prepares pilots and military personnel. What they...
...Monday, Flinn and her lawyers submitted a request to resign in lieu of a court-martial on the condition that it be an honorable discharge. The petition was rushed up the Air Force chain of command in three days, lightning speed in the military bureaucracy for such a request. On Tuesday, Widnall put the Flinn court-martial on hold while she considered the request. An honorable discharge was out of the question; there would be practically a mutiny in the senior officer corps if she allowed such blatant favoritism for an officer charged with these offenses. In private with Widnall...
...widening distance between the mores of the civilian world and those of the military, bombarded call-in shows with invocations of the right to keep the government out of the bedroom. In fact, the Air Force, in its treatment of Flinn's transgressions and its prosecution of adultery courts-martial, may be more nuanced than it originally got credit for. But unlike the Army and Navy, it is bringing increasing numbers of cases: 67 in 1996, up from...
...face nightmare scenarios of officers using rank to extort sex, of favoritism and jealousy eating away at the chain of command and hard-won troop morale, of subordinates wondering if their officer sent them on a particularly dangerous mission to avoid assigning it to a lover. Very few courts-martial involve adultery alone: frequently it is coupled with fraternization...
That would seem to be clear-cut if harsh. But complicating the issue is the fact that adultery and fraternization cases are handled at the discretion of the commander, who has a spectrum of choices running from friendly counseling through informal warning, fines, reprimands, demotions and courts-martial. This sustains authority and flexibility but invites caprice and prejudice. Air Force defenders point out that the branch's statistics on adultery courts-martial betray little sexual bias, reflecting almost exactly the male-to-female ratio of the force. But observers contend that women, once investigated, draw harsher noncriminal penalties. According...