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...better explanation is that the Navy failed to move on Graf earlier not in spite of her gender but because of it. Following the Tailhook scandal - in which Navy aviators assaulted dozens of women at a 1991 convention - the service rushed women to sea to show it was no longer locked in the Dark Ages. The service was under political pressure to diversify its leadership, and Graf was part of the answer: the first woman to command both a destroyer and a cruiser. Some veterans believe Graf needed more time to prepare for those commands. "I have some sympathy...
...President Clinton, who bears direct responsibility for that policy. But I sincerely doubt that that will ever happen. Their attitude is on a par with the feminists who roundly called for the immolation of all naval officers who were even in Las Vegas during the “tailhook episode,” while turning about and defending President Clinton’s actions during the Lewinsky scandal. As a former law student (though not at Harvard), it strikes me as ludicrous that law professors feel a need to censor the recruitment process for graduating 3Ls, who are at least...
...rape cases, first uncovered by the investigative unit at Denver's ABC affiliate KMGH, raise the question of whether the Tailhook sex-abuse scandal that hit the Navy in the early 1990s ever produced a new system capable of punishing men who commit these kinds of crimes. In 1993 the Air Force Academy launched a program touted as a model for teaching character, and three years later it instituted a rape-crisis hot line run by cadets. The academy claims fewer than 100 calls were placed to the hot line between 1996 and 2002, but this may be because some...
...real news. Real news is the result of careful investigation into issues that affect our lives. Real news is crucial to our understanding of the world around. Real news helps us see problems and, hopefully, helps us find solutions as well. Apartheid, the AIDS epidemic, Enron, Firestone tires, Tailhook and, of course, Watergate are prime examples of the powerful and important role journalists play in shaping our world. And it is precisely this kind of journalism that we should foster. We need it more than we realize...
Such reports are extremely sensitive in the Navy, which gained a reputation for unfairness to women following the Tailhook convention of Navy aviators in 1991 where dozens of women were sexually assaulted by drunken pilots. Since then, the Navy has pushed hard to put women aboard nearly all of its vessels except for submarines. Last year, the first female skipper took a U.S. Navy warship on a real-world mission to the Persian Gulf. But suggestions that precious Navy funds are going toward more frequent doctors' visits by female sailors will raise anew questions about the wisdom of putting women...