Word: tailhook
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Nothing like two years of unremitting public contempt to throw a wet blanket on a party. The 36th convention of the Tailhook Association, the Navy and Marine Corps carrier pilots society, took place in San Diego last weekend, and it was a somewhat more low-key gathering than the bacchanalian riot that occurred the last time the organization met, two years ago in Las Vegas. Back then, the attendees sexually assaulted dozens of women, and their behavior resulted in 40 disciplinary actions, 11 court-martial investigations, the resignation of a Navy Secretary, the near firing of the Navy...
...R.S.V.P. to Tailhook '93 Just...
Washington -- Navy flyers will want to reconsider attending the TAILHOOK ASSOCIATION CONVENTION set to begin Oct. 10 in San Diego. Navy brass sent a memo to active-duty and reserve flyers telling them that after years of cooperation, the Navy has "terminated all support, direct or indirect, for the Tailhook Association." Meanwhile, Navy Secretary John Dalton has quietly summoned to D.C. some two dozen officers who attended Tailhook to give them a chance to explain their conduct before their court cases go forward...
...Another Tailhook Pilot Flies...
...heterocentric litigation, meanwhile, the Navy withdrew all charges against a pilot in one of the 120 sexual-harassment cases stemming from the infamous Tailhook Association convention two years ago. Prosecutors abandoned the case against Lieut. Cole Cowden after determining there wasn't sufficient evidence to go to court. The Navy has now dropped half of the Tailhook cases...