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...double standard between your case and the "Tailhook incident"? You were discharged because of a verbal statement, yet three years after the Navy Secretary said he would not tolerate lewd behavior or sexual harassment, he attended a convention at which 26 women, many of them officers, were manhandled. ((Last week, under pressure, the Secretary resigned his post...
...MUCH AS THE U.S. NAVY MAY WANT THE SCANDAL to sink to the bottom of public consciousness, Tailhook keeps resurfacing. The now infamous convention last September of the Tailhook Association, an organization of Navy and Marine aviators, where at least 26 women were sexually molested by servicemen, bobbed up again last week. After months of criticism, Navy Secretary H. Lawrence < Garrett III finally resigned, accepting "full responsibility" for management of the Tailhook incident...
Navy and Marine aviators will have to let their imaginations fly in search of innovative ways to have fun this fall. The Tailhook convention, their skin- flick and booze fest, is off. Last week the Tailhook Association announced it was canceling the annual event in the wake of an ongoing investigation into sexual harassment that marked last year's four-day gathering. In the midst of running up thousands of dollars in bar bills, a few carousing pilots remained dexterous enough to grope at more than 26 women in the Las Vegas Hilton, sparking a furor that continues to grow...
...Unfortunately, the women present at a Las Vegas naval gathering in September witnessed an even darker side of the military man on the make. In a memo issued last week, Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III implicated 70 officers in an investigation of sexual harassment at the now infamous Tailhook convention. Part of the shenanigans at this annual meeting of Navy and Marine aviators included lining up in the halls of the Hilton Hotel and pawing at the breasts and buttocks of any unlucky woman who walked...
...around the Princeton in perfect formation. Over bull horns on the flight deck came the air officer's command: "White flag, land planes." The landing signal officer, from his screened perch astern on the flight deck, guided the first plane in with two orange paddles. It sailed in, tailhook down, picked up an arresting wire and stopped. His hook released from the wire by a scurrying, green-jerseyed deck man, the pilot taxied his craft forward, folding its wings as he went. One by one, the blue-black Panthers came in, caught the wire, pulled up like falcons brought...