Word: naval
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...probably escaped the legal gauntlet of Tailhook with no more than the nonpunitive letter of caution he received last October. About 60 other Navy and Marine officers have been subjected to administrative discipline, a measure that can sometimes short- circuit a career. And the commander of the Naval Investigative Service and the Navy's judge advocate general were relieved of their commands. As for the Tailhook Association, the Navy severed all ties with it and warned service members away from the 1993 convention, which in any case was a tea party. Tailhook's main legacy may be to have shamed...
...Navy judge dismissed the final three cases arising out of the Tailhook scandal, claiming that they had been tainted by the actions of Admiral Frank B. Kelso II, Chief of Naval Operations; a fourth case was dismissed because of insufficient evidence. Kelso, the judge said, witnessed debauched behavior at the 1991 Tailhook convention and then tried to cover up his knowledge of the affair. Kelso denies being aware of any improprieties...
...students do see this as an education of both the body and the mind and engage in athletic as well as intellectual pursuits. But the decisions to participate in such activities are made voluntarily, by individuals. Leave the mandatory nutrition seminars to Weight Watchers and fitness reigmen to the Naval Academy. Elisabeth Mayer...
Beginning as a shipboard cryptographer, Inman rose quickly. He became director of Naval Intelligence in 1974 and vice director of the Defense Intelligence Agency in 1976. In 1977 Jimmy Carter named him as head of the National Security Agency, the supersecret electronic eavesdropping and code- breaking service at Fort Meade, Maryland. He liked that so much it took a direct order from Ronald Reagan to move him to the deputy directorship of the CIA, where his probity was needed to balance the unpredictable chief spook, William Casey. In the process, Inman became the first naval intelligence specialist to reach four...
President Clinton signed legislation lifting the ban against women serving aboard naval combat vessels. Women will be assigned to three aircraft carriers...