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WASHINGTON -- Admiral Frank Kelso, his pension intact, isn't the only naval officer retiring in the wake of the Tailhook scandal. Lieut. Paula Coughlin, the pilot whose charges of sexual assault launched the official investigation, is leaving the service next week, bitter because she feels her complaints were ultimately brushed off. Adding insult to injury, the Navy's personnel bureau had been claiming she owed it nearly $19,000 of a prepaid pilot bonus that she now cannot "earn" because she is leaving four years ahead of schedule. But the Navy, worried about how Kelso's and Coughlin...
...Senate voted 54 to 43 to allow Admiral Frank Kelso, the Chief of Naval Operations, to retire with his four stars and full pension. But what was expected to be a low-key event turned into a bruising battle after the Senate's seven women -- Democratic and Republican alike -- united to target Kelso for his disputed role in the Tailhook sex scandal...
Then, after lobbying by Harvard and U.S. Rep. James P. Moran (D-Va.), the Navy decided to begin the study. That study recommended the Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Sea Systems Command be moved out of the 12-story Harvard owned buildings just across the river from Washington...
Such meager representation among the topmost brass is just one sign of the steady decline of influence among America's military academies. They have come under siege by critics who believe they cost too much and should be radically changed. The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, which is struggling to recover from a major cheating scandal, will host a discussion this month aptly titled "Service Academies: Leadership Crucibles or Magnificent Anachronisms?" All the academies are suffering from declining enrollment and struggling to develop a curriculum suitable to the post-cold war era. By doing so, however, they risk losing...
Many buyers look to current and former military and KGB officers, trapped in a system that can no longer afford to pay or house them adequately. At least one admiral has intentionally scuttled submarines in order to sell them for scrap. Ranking officers of the Russian fleet at Liepaja naval base in Latvia temporarily immobilized ships last year, when they sold the base's stores of fuel to international traders...