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...MUCH AS THE U.S. NAVY MAY WANT THE SCANDAL to sink to the bottom of public consciousness, Tailhook keeps resurfacing. The now infamous convention last September of the Tailhook Association, an organization of Navy and Marine aviators, where at least 26 women were sexually molested by servicemen, bobbed up again last week. After months of criticism, Navy Secretary H. Lawrence < Garrett III finally resigned, accepting "full responsibility" for management of the Tailhook incident...
...letter to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, Yeltsin confirmed that in the 1950s the Soviet Union shot down nine U.S. aircraft -- incidents never made public by the Pentagon -- and held 12 surviving Americans in prison or psychiatric clinics. He also reported that the Soviets held 716 American servicemen for varying periods during World War II and interrogated 59 American pows from the Korean War. He offered no significant information on the fate of missing servicemen from the Vietnam...
...conversion plan. The one area where we had an industrial policy in the '80s was in defense. We targeted specific investments. We had an agency to convert ideas from the lab to the marketplace. We put all kinds of technicians, scientists, engineers and factory workers to work and put servicemen and -women in the implementation stage, and now we are just laying them off with no conversion plan. If it were me, I would be organizing a strategy to maintain and develop a high-growth, high-wage base so we can adapt to change instead of being punished...
...grainy photo of a smiling middle-aged man bore a striking resemblance to Army Captain Donald G. Carr, who was shot down over Laos in 1971. So much so that his relatives, like those of many of the 2,273 U.S. servicemen listed as missing in action, dared to believe that their loved one was still alive in Southeast Asia. But the Carr family was the victim of a cruel fraud...
...fact, many servicemen and -women do have a choice: between volunteering to leave in exchange for a "copper handshake" severance package and waiting to be sacked and getting less attractive benefits. A staff sergeant with 10 years service, for instance, can choose to leave with a $28,100 lump-sum payment or a $4,700 annual annuity over 20 years. But if the same sergeant does not volunteer, he or she can be separated with one-third less pay. "It's a terrible decision to have to make," says Staff Sergeant Stephen Underwood, a gulf-war veteran who has decided...