Word: piloted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...love letters to Marc, she complained to her supervising sergeant. When the affair continued, she felt outmaneuvered and overwhelmed. "How could I compete with her?" the wife wrote. "She had power, both as an officer and academy graduate. She also had special status as the first female B-52 pilot." Clearly frustrated, Gayla continued, "I am tired of Lieut. Flinn acting as if she is the victim, when she is the one who committed the crimes." Flinn last weekend had a response. She told TIME, "Airman Zigo is not a victim of me, but she is a victim of Marc...
...went to work because she was always there," Gayla says. On July 11, she says, Marc came home drunk from a bar, and they got into a fight. Marc called Flinn, who offered to come pick him up. While she sat crying on her stoop, Gayla says, the bomber pilot drove up in her Honda Accord and whisked Marc Zigo away...
...extricate herself from the whole business if only she would stop seeing Marc, the case soon became one of sex discrimination in the service. Connecticut Republican Representative Nancy Johnson complained in a May 19 letter to Widnall, "It is disgraceful that Lieut. Flinn's career as a [bomber] pilot will be over simply because overzealous prosecutors targeted her case over numerous others with more egregious circumstances." New York Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney wondered "if an equally accomplished male pilot had made the same mistakes, how many high-ranking Air Force members would have looked the other...
...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 to one seasoned pilot (in a custom dubbed by others "different spanks for different ranks"), the "higher the person who commits the offense, the less happens to him." Critics cite the cases of Rear Admiral Ralph Tindal, who in 1995 was fined, demoted and confined to quarters for 30 days after an affair with...
...House members co-sponsoring a bill banning mixed-sex basic training. In the end, it may be best to let the generals and admirals, exploring unknown territory, figure it out for themselves. Speaking in her personal capacity, Captain Rosemary Mariner, the Navy's first woman tactical-jet pilot and the first female commander of an aviation squadron, suggests that the approach seems to have worked so far in her branch of the service. "When I came in 24 years ago, there was rampant sexual misconduct," she recalls. "Prosecutions were inconsistent and differed from command to command. But now the commanders...