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...honor code could work anywhere, it would be at the nation's military academies. There academic and moral training extends 24 hours a day. The honor code of the Naval Academy is simple: "a midshipman does not lie, cheat, or steal...
...court ruling that said the Pentagon's old policy toward gays was unconstitutional. The appeal, which avoids the constitutional aspects of excluding gays from the military, is based on the narrowest technical grounds: whether it is within the purview of the court to order the Pentagon to commission Midshipman Joseph Steffan, an admitted homosexual. The White House says it must challenge the ruling in order to ultimately defend its new and slightly more liberal "Don't ask, don't tell" policy when, as expected, it meets with legal challenges...
...student and a track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. She was found not far from Grizzard, curled in a fetal position. She had been shot at close range in the back of the head. Like Grizzard and O'Neill, Ensign George P. Smith, 24, was a midshipman at Annapolis and was due to report for duty as an engineer aboard the U.S.S. Salt Lake City, a nuclear attack submarine. He shot himself in the right temple with a 9-mm Ruger handgun after apparently using the same weapon to kill Grizzard and O'Neill...
Last week a federal appeals court rearranged that report card: Steffan got an A; the military got an F. After concluding that Steffan's constitutional rights had been violated, a three-judge panel ordered that the 29-year-old former midshipman be granted a diploma and commissioned as a second lieutenant. As for the military's aversion to gays, the panel offered a rebuke so stinging that there is question whether the Pentagon's new policy of "Don't ask, don't tell" will be able to withstand constitutional scrutiny. "America's hallmark has been to judge people by what...
Court orders Navy to commission dismissed gay midshipman...