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...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...
...Alton Lee Grizzard, 24, to be an admiral one day. Last week he was shot four times: once in each leg, once in the abdomen and, finally, once in the head. Classmates worshipped Ensign Kerryn O'Neill, 21, an honors 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...
President Clinton signed legislation lifting the ban against women serving aboard naval combat vessels. Women will be assigned to three aircraft carriers...
...federal appeals court ruled that the armed forces cannot expel anyone on account of his or her sexual orientation. The U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that Joseph Steffan was wrongfully dismissed from the Naval Academy in 1987 and ordered him to be graduated immediately and given a commission. The effect that the decision will have on the military is unclear. The lawsuit was a challenge to the old policy on gays, but the reasoning appears also to apply to the new "Don't ask, don't tell" policy...