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...Tailhook-tainted U.S. Navy found itself scrambling to deal with a new sex scandal. This time, as reported in the Washington Post, a chief petty officer was charged with drunkenly groping a young female colleague during a commercial-airline flight. An additional 20 or so sailors were also on board--including a Navy chaplain with the rank of lieutenant commander--who apparently did nothing to intervene, despite the woman's screams. Further unwelcome news for Navy brass: some two dozen midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy are under investigation for alleged marijuana...
Paula Coughlin, the ex-Navy officer who was roughed up at the 1991 Tailhook gathering and brought down a bridgeful of Navy brass when she complained of the Navy's malfeasance in probing her charges, says Greene's alleged behavior, while it may seem almost innocent, can be unnerving. "It's intimidating coming from a boss, but that's something a lot of men just don't get," the unemployed former chopper pilot said last week. Coughlin's experience does not make her optimistic that the Greene case will lead to enlightenment. Although more than 140 Navy and Marine officers...
Four years after the infamous Tailhook scandal, the Navy is, at the very least, still climbing a steep learning curve. Admiral Jeremy M. Boorda, chief of naval operations, does not see a trend in the rash of sexual-harassment cases. "We have set some standards," he says, "and I think what you're seeing now is the result of those standards being applied...
Hardly recovered from the Tailhook scandal, the Navy set sail once again on the treacherous seas of a sexual-harassment case. In Washington, court-martial proceedings opened against Captain Everett Greene to examine charges that he wrote suggestive notes and made harassing calls to two female subordinates. He insists his messages were misconstrued. On Friday the judge dismissed one woman's allegations. At the time of the alleged incidents, Greene ran the Navy's equal-opportunity unit--which handled sex- harassment complaints...
...white male fraternity in the most desirable ranks. White males still make up 98% of military pilots. Military officials say many minority servicemen lack the high level of education required for flight school. But both women and blacks argue that the culture is hostile to them--and the Tailhook incident, for one, seems to support that claim...