Navy Tailhookers will soon rendezvous in Reno for their 60th annual meeting. But it was 25 years ago in Las Vegas when a very controversial Tailhook took place. That September 1991 “celebration” ...
It is the 15 th anniversary of “The Year of the Woman,” as 1992 was billed. Spurred, in part, by their fury over how the all-male Senate Judiciary Committee treated Anita Hill during her testimony ...
One day soon, the official report on Tailhook will pop loose from an embattled Pentagon. When it does, it will provoke another round of accusation, speculation, vilification and consternation ...
Saying he no longer wanted to be a “lightning rod” for the Navy’s Tailhook scandal, Adm. Frank B. Kelso II abruptly announced his early retirement yesterday as the nation’s top uniformed naval officer ...
Every now and then the news serves up two disconnected events that cast a stark and telling light on each other. That happened in the past week. Event No. 1: Friday’s release of a Pentagon report on ...
No Navy flier has felt Tailhook’s sting more deeply than Robert E. Stumpf. Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for aerial heroism during the Persian Gulf War and once commander of the Navy’s elite ...
Navy Tailhookers will soon rendezvous in Reno for their 60th annual meeting. But it was 25 years ago in Las Vegas when a very controversial Tailhook took place. That September 1991 “celebration” ...
The Pentagon inspector general investigating the assault of dozens of women at a 1991 naval aviators convention in Las Vegas has compiled evidence that may lead to the courts-martial of more than a ...
The Navy’s next chief of naval operations has received some free advice from some of his fellow admirals: Put Tailhook behind you. The man who replaces Adm. Jeremy M. “Mike” Boorda should get a “good ...
WASHINGTON — The final report on the Pentagon’s Tailhook investigation, expected to be released later this month, alleges an assortment of sex acts by Navy officers that go beyond grabbing and ...
Paula Coughlin exposed military sexual assault two decades ago. Now, the Tailhook whistle-blower is leading a summer lobbying effort to sway senators to vote for a bill the Pentagon staunchly opposes.
Lockheed Martin has come up with a new design for the tailhook on the F35 Joint Strike Fighters that should allow the Navy variant, the F-35C, to land on carriers and speed the long-delayed process of ...