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Even as Defense Secretary Dick Cheney moved last week to put the Tailhook scandal behind him by naming a squeaky-clean number cruncher as Acting Navy Secretary, the Pentagon found itself embarrassed by new reports of sexual harassment and misconduct in the Navy...
...center of the new charges is Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin, one of 26 women sexually molested during last year's Las Vegas Hilton convention of the Tailhook Association, an organization of Navy and Marine pilots. Coughlin told officials at the Naval Investigative Service in November that the agent assigned to her case, Laney Spigener, not only invited her to dinner and a drive in the country but, as she was sorting through photographs of Navy and Marine aviators in an attempt to identify those who had pawed her, also called her "sweetcakes." Spigener was removed from the case and suspended...
...first message as the Navy's Acting Secretary, former Pentagon comptroller Sean O'Keefe, 36, called on all officers to cooperate "fully and truthfully" with the Pentagon probe into Tailhook. Appointed by Cheney for only a 120-day term, O'Keefe will sidestep Senate approval. Good news for the Navy, since confirmation hearings would have given lawmakers another chance to sound off against the already scandal-weary service...
Seen in that light, the revelations about lewd shenanigans at the Tailhook convention of Navy and Marine aviators last September, which have already cost Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III his job, may be a blessing in disguise. Much as race riots in 1972 led to racial reforms within the Navy, the Tailhook debacle is prompting a serious campaign to stamp out sexual harassment. Acting Navy Secretary Daniel Howard last week ordered a service-wide stand-down so that all personnel can devote a full day to sexual-harassment training. And on Capitol Hill four women recounted tales of sexual...
Just as the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings made women recall their own tales of sexism, so has the Tailhook scandal made females in uniform question their handling of aberrant behavior in the past. One Air Force captain recalls overlooking a minor incident years back. The man got promoted and continued to bother other women. Now she thinks maybe she should have made a little noise. An Air Force staff sergeant recalls a military doctor who used to pat the buttocks and breasts of many female patients, regardless of their ailment. As for the men, they stand divided. One Navy...