Word: tailhook
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...times have changed. In part it's simply a matter of the available labor pool. In these booming times, the Navy can't recruit enough men for its 315 ships. The other driving force has been the Navy's resolve to bleach the stain of the 1991 Tailhook Association convention, at which naval aviators sexually assaulted 83 women and then tried to cover it up. For years the Navy has been fighting the perception that women are not welcome in its ranks...
...only four, all officers, because the lack of berthing space has kept the enlisted ranks all male. By 2004, when nearly all vessels will be opened to women, the Navy is projecting that the average crew will be 12% female. (In January the Navy closed a chapter on the Tailhook scandal, restoring official ties with the group after exacting a pledge that the misconduct of 1991 would not recur...
...will hurt morale? That unless everyone stays in denial, no one will take a shower? One thing that we know hurts morale is forcing people to dissemble about who waits for them at home, whom they vacation with. The Joint Chiefs fret over a breakdown of discipline, as if Tailhook had been a gay bacchanalia. Whether gay or straight, sex in the barracks is a one-way ticket to the brig. We're talking about the military, not a college dorm...