Word: tailhook
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...lost on the Army, though, when it announced it was filing rape, assault and sexual harassment charges against three male officers responsible for training new recruits at Aberdeen, and investigating at least 17 others. The most far-reaching scandal to hit the armed forces since the Navy's 1991 Tailhook incident threatens to undermine the thing that many in the military hold sacred: the chain of command. It has also teased out an alarming number of similar allegations at other bases around the country. But hoping to avoid a repeat of Tailhook--in which no one was ever convicted after...
...Navy, the timing of the arrests could not be worse. The service is reeling from the fallout of the Tailhook sexual harassment scandal; a succession of cheating, drug-dealing and car-theft scandals at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; and the May 16 suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence...
...posts before being named chief of NATO's forces in Southern Europe in 1991. He was nominated by President Clinton to the top naval post in March 1994, when his predecessor, Admiral Frank Kelso II, had to retire early in response to criticism of his handling of the 1991 Tailhook sex-harassment episode. As the first enlisted man ever to rise to the Navy's top spot, Boorda was known, and widely liked, as a "sailor's sailor," and he set about restoring ethical standards and pride to the troubled service branch...
...notes, Boorda said he was taking his life because he feared the investigation into his decorations could tarnish not only his reputation but that of the Navy as well. Boorda was the Navy's top uniformed officer and succeeded Admiral Frank Kelso as chief of Naval operations after the Tailhook scandal. Inheriting an institution battered by sex harassment and drug use charges, Boorda made it his mission to emphasize the need for honor among Naval forces. Boorda was highly respected in both military and civilian circles. Friday, Defense Secretary William J. Perry praised Boorda in a speech at Maryland...
...notes, Boorda said he was taking his life because he feared the investigation into his decorations could tarnish not only his reputation but that of the Navy as well. Boorda was the Navy's top uniformed officer and succeeded Admiral Frank Kelso as chief of Naval operations after the Tailhook scandal. Inheriting an institution battered by sex harassment and drug use charges, Boorda made it his mission to emphasize the need for honor among Naval forces. Boorda was highly respected in both military and civilian circles. Friday, Defense Secretary William J. Perry praised Boorda in a speech at Maryland...