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...Tailhook Lesson Learned
Jury awards Tailhook accuser $1.7 million from Las Vegas Hilton...
...five West Point athletes accused of groping female cadets during a pep rally have been tossed off the football team for the rest of the season, while the other two were cleared due to insufficient evidence.The academy, trying to move quickly to avoid comparisons to theNavy's Tailhook scandal, also restricted the three to the campus for 90 days, gave them demerits and had them march for a total of 80 hours. West Point hasn't disclosed the athletes' names. The Oct. 20 incident occurred during a "spirit run," in which female cadets ran through a cordon of about...
...Tailhook scandal moves through the courts, a new harassment case further tarnishing the reputation of the military's manhood may be brewing.The U.S. Military Academy at West Pointis investigating five football players who allegedly groped 15 female cadets during a pep rally on October 20. The women told investigators they were brushed across the breasts as they and other cadets ran past a cordon of West Point players during a football rally turned "spirit run." West Point officials were quick to note differences between this incident and Tailhook. "This is not another Tailhook. This is vastly different. These were students...
...Vegas Hilton was ordered today to pay former Navy pilot Paula Coughlin $1.7 million for failing to provide adequate security at the1991 Tailhook convention, where Coughlin says she was sexually assaulted by drunken aviators. A U.S. District Court jury in Las Vegas ruled after two days of deliberations that the hotel and its parent, Hilton Hotel Corp., acted with malice. Deliberations begin Monday on punitive damages. Coughlin sued the Navy and the hotel, but settled with the Navy. So far, the Tailhook scandal has resulted in the resignation of former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III and put on hold...